HOT HOT HOT HOT!!! Mac Book Pro Retina, Mid 2012 with 2 external Displays HOT HOT HOT HOT!!!

Hi,
i think i have a serious heat problem and i am a bit afraid of melting the mac book (It happend before with an older mac book pro, graphic card melted...yes, it did...)
i own a Retina, Mid 2012
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
in use with 2 external Monitors, one TB Display and one Eizo (27" same resolution as TB) via display port and doing lots of stats with Stata and R on it and it get hot like **** (temperature monitor says around 95-100° degrees on graphic processor diod and around 80° on the chip.
furthermore, it creates kind of random kernel tasks with % CPU usage up to 500% (i read somewhere it does it to keeps internal cooling up...(??) ) and it is getting really slow... almost unusable.
Is this still healthy and the way it should be when i use it with 2 monitors?
Will i ruin it by using it like this all day long?
Apple says it could handle two displays. I think it can`t without killing itself on the long run (if you still USE it)
any ideas what to do? i allready use a cooling pad for it (cheap revoltec) but it does not really help, the macs and the pads fans run like crazy, its pretty noisy and gets really hot anyway
Any experiences with 2 displays?
is there anything i can do about it?
Better cooling pad solutions???
Any other solutions??
Any ideas welcome
Thanks & Best
Franz

Hm, i cannot reproduce the kernel_task thing right now, but this is my temp after working with 2 screens for 10 minutes. is this normal?
100° cpu, 96° on the diode, and 78 on GPU chip? it even was 82 once.
when do i reach critical limits?
apple?

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panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff7f89763f7c): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 3 0 a0 d9 9 8 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x0010a1c0: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0x102c00000 0xffffff811885d000 0x0e7150a2, D0, P2/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.6.22/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
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0xffffff80159b2a30 : 0xffffff8007422f79
0xffffff80159b2ab0 : 0xffffff7f89763f7c
0xffffff80159b2b80 : 0xffffff7f87fe4ba4
0xffffff80159b2c40 : 0xffffff7f880aeebe
0xffffff80159b2c80 : 0xffffff7f882f7b7a
0xffffff80159b2cd0 : 0xffffff7f8811a068
0xffffff80159b2d40 : 0xffffff7f882fb3b4
0xffffff80159b2e00 : 0xffffff7f881275d6
0xffffff80159b2e30 : 0xffffff7f882330cf
0xffffff80159b2e60 : 0xffffff7f88234da1
0xffffff80159b2f00 : 0xffffff7f88235368
0xffffff80159b2f80 : 0xffffff7f87ff9a03
0xffffff80159b2fd0 : 0xffffff7f8823949a
0xffffff80159b3130 : 0xffffff7f88239a2a
0xffffff80159b31b0 : 0xffffff7f880e6822
0xffffff80159b3380 : 0xffffff7f880e53c3
0xffffff80159b33c0 : 0xffffff7f880f552c
0xffffff80159b3420 : 0xffffff7f880f61af
0xffffff80159b34e0 : 0xffffff7f87fcf753
0xffffff80159b3510 : 0xffffff7f87fcee55
0xffffff80159b3530 : 0xffffff7f87fcf7e0
0xffffff80159b3570 : 0xffffff7f87fcecab
0xffffff80159b3610 : 0xffffff7f87fc1225
0xffffff80159b36b0 : 0xffffff7f87fe9221
0xffffff80159b38b0 : 0xffffff7f87fea208
0xffffff80159b3990 : 0xffffff7f8818a4d8
0xffffff80159b39e0 : 0xffffff7f8818ab5c
0xffffff80159b3a90 : 0xffffff7f8817eede
0xffffff80159b3c60 : 0xffffff7f87f9685b
0xffffff80159b3cf0 : 0xffffff7f87f80088
0xffffff80159b3d70 : 0xffffff7f87f83000
0xffffff80159b3db0 : 0xffffff7f87f82892
0xffffff80159b3e20 : 0xffffff7f87f4a452
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      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.4.1)[D41125CE-69BD-32E7-9B1D-4E83431662DD]@0xff ffff7f87f7e000->0xffffff7f87f8dfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.4.1)[75D81741-64C1-3941-ADFA-9D6B6C434EE4]@0 xffffff7f87f3b000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[2852ACFE-FD28-3C37-9B39-885201BB8D25]@0xffffff 7f87abf000
         com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl(3.6.22)[32862231-50BC-3AF6-87A2-703321AE4F90]@ 0xffffff7f89755000->0xffffff7f89768fff
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            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[045D5D6F-AD1E-36DB-A249-A346E2B48E54]@0xfffff f7f8875a000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[2852ACFE-FD28-3C37-9B39-885201BB8D25]@0xffffff 7f87abf000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.4.1)[75D81741-64C1-3941-ADFA-9D6B6C434EE4]@0 xffffff7f87f3b000
            dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert(1.0.4)[80899285-3952-30DA-A0F9-357C51E104 CF]@0xffffff7f89750000
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13F34
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Sun Aug 17 19:50:11 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 9477416E-7BCA-3679-AF97-E1EAAD3DD5A0
Kernel slide:     0x0000000007200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8007400000
System model name: MacBookPro10,1 (Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 274773149981034
last loaded kext at 215374964646844: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 2.0.3 (addr 0xffffff7f89984000, size 335872)
last unloaded kext at 269733255167780: com.parallels.kext.hypervisor 10.0.2 27712 (addr 0xffffff7f89929000, size 319488)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 2.0.3
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 11.1
com.apple.nke.asp-tcp 8.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
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com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.2.7f3
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com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.2.7f3
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I bought a new 13 inch Mac book pro Retina at the end of May 2013. I have been to the apple store and called apple care several times. Now things are very bad. It would crash and give me a white screen every so often but over the last week things have gotten very bad. It will crash with the white screen, browsers and applications all close unexpectedly - it started with firefox then safari, then mail then face book, then adobe and finally iphoto and picassa. I did send in the reports. Also if I had a picture in i-photo my picassa program is set up to grab all pictures - recently any pictures that have been grabbed it says the files are corrupted. I keep having trouble with the air port utility in that it can't find the wireless network and or the time capsuel even though it can be wireless or plugged in by ethernet. I called apple care and got this very nice tech guy and he tried many different fixes and said he thought the hard drive would need to be replaced so got an appointment to take my computer in. They ran two tests and said everything is fine with the computer it must be the software. So now I'm supposed to get apple care to help me try and save all my data on flash drives! Can't back it up on time capsuel cause he said it would just back up the problem. So this seems overwhelming and I'm so upset. Well, then I thought about it and my old mac book in which all the data and software was transferred from hasn't been erased as I was having so many issues I hadn't done that yet. So my question is if it was the software, wouldn't it be making my older mac book do the same thing? What is wrong with my New Computer? As of tonight, I can't even open anything it gives a quick flash of trying to open and closes so the computer is totally useless - so no idea how to get the data off that is most recent. Apple says they cannot help cause it is a software program but now I have a 2 month old computer whish is useless. Any thoughts?

Call Apple and make a appointment.
You have 3 months of care and up to 3 years with paid AppleCare, let them handle it and bring everything in.
Good Luck

HOT HOT HOT HOT!!! Mac Book Pro Retina, Mid 2012 with 2 external Displays HOT HOT HOT HOT!!!

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