Alright, I don't think it's necessary for this to be in the sticky thread because I came across an article that warns about Starcraft 2 causing to overheat people's graphics cards and Blizzard has just recently found out about it and they were able to tell us how to temporarily fix it through the variable.ini.
Here is the article but I'll summarize basically what it says.
http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/news/12626-overheating-bug-confirmed-how-to-fix-it
"For a temporary workaround, go to your Documents/StarCraft II/Variables.txt and set frameratecapglue to 30 and frameratecap to 60.
Add these lines to Variable.txt:
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
Other known issues are the unability to run StarCraft 2 in compability mode in Windows, black screen when trying to use a Quick Cam webcam."
What they said that the overheating starts where you are in the Hyperion menu (a.k.a point and click game :D ) and the computer will try to render an infinite number of frames.
My friend said that this fix works but not fully because his computer had used to autoshutdown when he played the game unless he puts everything to extremely low. Now he said he can play much longer but the auto shutdown happens a few times still.
Hopefully this has helped people having GPU-related problems.
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