HD4850 with better cooling fan

Hi,
I own an MSI Radeon HD4850 and today my computer shut down while gaming because the card got to hot. I checked the temperature of the card during load and it hits about 106 - 110 degrees celsius. Is this normal for this card? Also when checking on the internet I found that MSI seems to have put better cooling fans on some of the hd4850's, are these later releases of the card, if so how can I get the better cooling fan for my card from MSI?
My card is the following:
And it seems that this fan cannot adequatly cool the card?
I have found these images of cards which appear to have a much better cooling fan:
My card is 1 year old at the moment and I have just recently started using it for gaming, that's why I am only noticing now.
Any information is greatly appreciated

My N250GTS has a cooler like the 2nd one you have pictured and it went to over 100oC under heavy load when I had it in my Sony case. It has no front intake fan nor provision to mount one so it's not the type of cooler in particular that may be your problem. The problem was poor air flow through the case as it was never designed for such a heat producing VGA card. It's no longer in that case but solution for me was mount an 80mm fan where the left side cover had vent holes and had it blowing onto the card. Temp never went much over 75oC after that.
Normally you shouldn't have a heat problem if you have a front fan blowing in and a rear fan blowing out in addition to the PSU fan.

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I see that you're having an issue with the cooling fan giving you a 902 error message. This could be a hardware or software issue. More than likely the fan is going bad resulting in a hardware issue.
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Hi wardy2k,
The reason the fan was throwing an error and was not functioning earlier could be becuase of a lot of performance reasons.
I would like to inform you that with softwares like the HP Support Assistant Software that always is performing updates at the background, fixes for common issues on the Notebook happens in the form of updates. BIOS Update is known to fix minor fan issues and over-heating concerns. These updates could have got installed which resolved your issue. HP always keeps a track of the common issues that get reported on different models, work on solutions and push them to Notebooks connected to the internet via the HP Support Assistant Software.
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Fan runs constantly, the PC Operates Slower than Expected and Generates Heat: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01007591&cc=ad&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_us...
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