MacBook Pro going haywire

I have a MacBook Pro (early 2011) and it seemed to be having hardware issues last week. The computer froze and beeped three times in succession every 5 seconds or so. This is normally an indication of the RAM needing to be reseated, so I took it in to Apple and they reseated it for me. As soon as I took it home, not only was it having similar issues, but I also recieved numerous Kernal Panic errors and at one point when I tried to wake my MBP, the screen wouldn't light up and It was running really hot and the fans were going nuts. Each time a problem like this occurs, resetting the SMC and rebooting the system seem to fix the issue, until a new one arises. I'm seriously doubting that this is a software issue. Is the logic board faulty?

You may have to take the computer back to the Genius Bar at Apple for further evaluation.
Reinstalling Lion may not resolve the issue.
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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 9808 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID:                    716F24AA-2763-4A12-A3CA-877FE127FD02
Sat Sep 28 14:06:10 2013
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f81425007): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xc0000000 0xffffff809e52e000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P2/4
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0xffffff807b1d3860 : 0xffffff7f81425007
0xffffff807b1d38f0 : 0xffffff7f8151db83
0xffffff807b1d3950 : 0xffffff7f8151dbf7
0xffffff807b1d39c0 : 0xffffff7f823ad855
0xffffff807b1d3b00 : 0xffffff7f81541ddd
0xffffff807b1d3b30 : 0xffffff7f8142ed6a
0xffffff807b1d3be0 : 0xffffff7f8142a43c
0xffffff807b1d3dd0 : 0xffffff7f8142be4a
0xffffff807b1d3eb0 : 0xffffff7f813c032c
0xffffff807b1d3f00 : 0xffffff7f82570c0b
0xffffff807b1d3f50 : 0xffffff7f825714b2
0xffffff807b1d3f70 : 0xffffff800023dbbc
0xffffff807b1d3fb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
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Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
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