MSI R7970 Lightning BE - OVERHEATING PROBLEM !!

Hi my name is Nick and I am from Greece and new in this forum . I recently bought an MSI Radeon 7970 Lightning BE from a reseller from ebay , the product came to me after 3 weeks and then I started testing,note that this card is used in a crossfire configuration , the second card is an ASUS HD 7970 DC2T , so I opened Furmark and I so that after 3 minutes that the Msi 7970 lightning was about 94 degress and the Asus hd 7970 was 74 degress and stable , I ran several tests because as I read on the Internet MSI doesn't recognise Furmark as a Benchmark Program , I used 3DMark 11 ,3DMark Vantage with no luck , always the MSI was overheating.
Then I read in this foum a guy with a similar problem with mine , and what he did was to reapply thermal paste and the problem was gone. I saw this and bought the best thermal best that I could found (GELID GC EXTREME) and today I reapplied it , unfortunately nothing changed , I ran 3DMark 11 ,furmark , Crysis 3 and now it showed me artifacts (MSI Video Card at stock clocks).
I don't know what to do I know that the warranty is no use anymore as I opened and remove the cooler but what else could I do .
My PC Specs :
CPU : Intel Core i7 2700K (Overclockred at 4,4 Ghz)
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA -Z68X - UD7 -B3
RAM : 32 GB ( 2 x 8 GB G.Skill ARES @ 1600 Mhz)
Case : Coolermaster HAF X (with 7 case fans - 3 Noctuas)
SSD : Intel 520 Series SSD 240 Gb
HDD : 2 x WD Caviar Black 2 TB
Sound Card : ASUS xonar Essence ST
CPU Cooler : Noctua NH-D14
VGA CARD 1 : MSI R7970 Lightning BE ( Stock Clocks : Core : 1150 Mhz , Memory : 1500 Mhz)
VGA CARD 2 : ASUS HD 7970 DC2T (Overclocked to reach the MSI , Core : 1125 Mhz , Memory : 1500 Mhz)
PSU : Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875 Watt (80+ Bronze)
Please someone help me I don't know what to do , please note that I have installed all the latest drivers (AMD Catalyst 13.4) and everything as fa as software I think is fine.

Case solved , I putted the ASUS 7970 DC2T in the top PCI Express x16_1 and the MSI R7970 Lightning BE at the bottom PCI Exprees x8_2 , I lost some perfromance (about 3 -5 fps) because of the bandwith , but now when I play crysis 3 the temperatures have a big improvement , the msi stays stable at 55 -58 degrees and the asus is 67 -70 degrees , about 10 degrees hotter (in a crossfire the top card heats more , thats true afterall) .
;-))To achieve this low temperature at msi 7970 I also set manual fan profile at msi afterburner at that's it ,also note that I have 2 noctuas 14 cm fans to blow fresh air in front of each card.

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---- dropmefiles.com/Bdzh2
techpowerup.com/gpuz/w4s8g/
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>>How to use MSI Afterburner<<
Quote from: How to use MSI Afterburner
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ok, How would I check the bio to see if the bio is reading wrong?
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Quote from: Svet on 28-June-13, 16:40:43
save and upload your current vbios to check it
Hello Svet,
My bios
http://www.teamanotherview.com/downloads/msi_7970_Tahiti.rom
Ty,
Cheers
GROK

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