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What’s causing these screen artifacts?

Hello Guys. I was just running a heavy ffmpeg render when suddenly the left side of my screen started with these weird lines. So at first I suspected I fried the GPU but they’re not visible on an external display (phew). What’s weird about these artifacts is that they’re not consistent. They‘re mostly gone but sometimes reappear and then disappear again. It doesn’t seem to be related to movements of the mac either. Could this be related to the flex cable or is my screen broken? Any help or insights are highly appreciated

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Rendering is often the heaviest of processing jobs your system is asked to preform and creates by far the most heat. While Apples M series SoC runs cooler than Intels CPU, Apple cut back on this series cooling as such you maybe expecting a bit to much from it.

Here we have the signs of the T-CON logic which is that dangling piece attached to the display that sits inside of the upper case. Review this image while not the best the silver shield area is the logic which has either over heated or the ribbon cables/LCD panel has failed. In any case replacement will be needed Display Assembly Compatible with MacBook Air 13" (Late 2018-Early 2020)

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Display Assembly Compatible with MacBook Air 13" (Late 2018-Early 2020)

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