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Possible GPU(Heat) related crashes?

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Hey guys, had my PC since like January and never had any problems with it. However, in the last 2 days my PC has been shutting down when i'm playing a video file and before it does shut down it does a weird buzzing sound.
I shut it down and rebooted perfectly and checked the gpu temp on my 3870. It was 56c. I ran riva tuner and upped the fan speed and played video files and had no issues for the rest of the day.

But again i had issues when playing a vidoe file (same restart) and same gpu temp of 56c. Never ran rivatuner though.

Is the GPU hitting this certain temperature causing the crash?

Will i have to fork out another 150 quid from ocuk for a new one?
 
Trouble is i was playing in vlc.

I installed a sound blaster audigy card a few days before if that could by any chance affect my system?

But like sound files play fine.
 
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