I've noticed, or maybe just with my computer shitting the bed it makes me question more, that of late (for a good while) I've had odd fan noises: the fans whisper down, speed up, make weird click/gnarly sounds, and it's never the same fans.
All of the fans are working, however. So is that potentially a sign of a failing power supply? Power supply failure might explain why when the comp was crashing it was generating no mini.dmp file either at the end, if this is caused by a progressively weakening power supply.