Could a faulty graphics card kill a mobo?

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Slight tale here, bear with me:
4 year old system - i5 2500k@4ghz, 8GB RAM, Gigabyte Z68XP, GTX 570 and a OCZ 650w PSU.

Saturday afternoon, while playing DA:I it keeps crashing, with nVidia errors, every 60mins or so. 2 crashes later, I give up on the game, putting it down to a driver issue. PC otherwise OK for rest of the day.
Sunday, upgrade the drivers, playing DA:I, crashes again. Fire it up once more, and 30 mins later, the whole system freezes. Reboot - dead. Powers on for a few seconds, as things spin up, reboots, repeat ad infinitum. I thought the GFX had died, so pulled that out, same problem.

So today I get our spare i3/4GB system from work, bring it home. Through a process of elimination, it turns out, my motherboard is dead. Everything else 'seems' OK. So I transfer most kit across to this Intel DH67BL mainboard, including hard drive. It all boots up OK. Install all the new drivers...all seems OK, until the nVidia driver and.....graphical artifacts...and then a reboot.

And now, it seems my GTX 570 is dead too?? It works fine is safe mode, or without any drivers, but once the drivers are installed, it lasts about 60-90 seconds before I get artifacts/anomilies across the screen, then the display dies.


Is it possible the GFX killed the mobo? Or vice versa? I've seen faulty PSU's take out multiple items, but this just seems like an odd coincidence.
I did wonder if this DH67BL was the problem, but a search suggest others have used it OK?

Is this just bad 'post-christmas-I'm-outta-cash-to-upgrade' luck? Any suggestions?
 
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