Macbook Pro (R) Way Too Hot

I have a Mid 2012 Macbook Pro Retina Display 15 inch and I've been having a problem with the fans running full blast and being very loud when I do simple activities such as watching a Youtube video on Chrome. When I check the activity moniter, it hovers around 50-80% CPU usage for Chrome Helper. I just contacted support and did an SMC reset. After that I installed something to check temperatures, and the CPU cores were over 100 degrees C while just watching a video. The fans run at almost 6000 RPM. This has not been an issue the whole time I've had the computer. I think it might have started when I installed Mavericks, but I'm not sure. The Apple support people on the phone told me that I should reinstall the OS, but I would like to avoid that because I have Bootcamp and a Windows partition on my computer as well. Is there anything else I can try to fix this? (Sorry if this is in the wrong place or anything. This is my first post because I am really confused and concerned by this problem)

Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro10,1
          1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          16 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
          NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) - Uptime: 0 days 0:53:16
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SM256E disk0 : (251 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 185.14 GB (62.81 GB free)
                    BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 65 GB (4.97 GB free)
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
          [kext loaded] com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (9.0) Support
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
          [running] Safe.Connect.plist Support
Launch Agents:
          [failed] com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist Support
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
          [running] Safe.Connect.client.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
          [failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
          [loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist Support
          [running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          Google Drive
          Spotify
          uTorrent
          Spotify
          Spotify
          Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins:
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.201 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.201 - SDK 10.6 Support
          OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support
          DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 2.2 Support
          o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.3.0.18358 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6 Support
          googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.3.0.18358 Support
          Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.8.0 - SDK 10.9 Mismatch! Oracle recommends Java 7 Update 55
Safari Extensions:
          Searchme: Version: 1.3
          DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video>: Version: 2.1.2.145
          AdBlock: Version: 2.6.28
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player Support
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Mobile backups: OFF
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 172.43 GB Disk used: 113.93 GB
          Destinations:
                    My Passport for Mac [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 652.05 GB
                    Total number of backups: 6
                    Oldest backup: 2014-02-06 08:38:53 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-04-23 18:17:34 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 652.05 GB > (Disk size 172.43 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
               6%          coreaudiod
               4%          fontd
               4%          Google Chrome
               3%          WindowServer
               1%          iTunes
Top Processes by Memory:
          295 MB          Finder
          213 MB          WindowServer
          197 MB          Dock
          164 MB          Google Chrome
          164 MB          iTunes
Virtual Memory Information:
          9.73 GB          Free RAM
          4.17 GB          Active RAM
          759 MB          Inactive RAM
          1.35 GB          Wired RAM
          1.43 GB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs

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