Macbook retina multiple displays heating

Greetings,
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012. I loaded Mavericks onto it two days ago. This morning when I arrived at work, I plugged my three dell monitors into it (2 via lighting and 1 via USB). Within 5 minutes, the fan on the left side started spinning loudly. After multiple test with different monitors, I have found that I can only use 1 external monitor before the fan starts working really hard. Even with all the applications closed with more than one monitor connected create this over heating condition.
Any ideas?
Michael

Greetings,
As it turns out, the overheating was caused by Dropbox. It took a while to understand the new layout with activity monitor. The fan is still spinning more than it was under Mountain Lion, but not near what it was when I hooked up the three other monitors.

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