Fan noise Snow Leopard, MacBook

Hi,
since I upgraded to Snow Leopard my CPU has a constant temperature of around 60 °C. I'm mostly using Logic9 on my Macbook. Everytime the fan kicks in and runs at up to 6000rpm. This never happended before. The CPU usage is around 30%. The noise is so disturbing that I cannot work on my projects. The CPU temperature then is around 68°C.
Does anybody know what's wrong?

Try resetting some of the hardware involved (PRAM~NVRAM). See this Apple KB for details, etc.:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Can't hurt to try, and apparently this has helped others recently.
If you still get no joy, consider walking it in to the nearest Apple Store and having the staff offer up opinions.

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