RX9800 extreme heat problems

I have an MSI RX9800 TD-128 (Radeon 9800) and the problem is the card gets EXTREMELY hot; by that I mean so hot I can barely touch the heatsink for more than a few seconds. There are no problems regarding stability or image quality (like rendering errors), though. So I'd like to know if temperatures that high are normal for this card (remember, I can barely touch the heatsink, it's that hot).
It is definitely not the result of an insufficiently ventilated case, since the results are the same even with the case open. Also the case is very well ventilated (4 fans), with the CPU (Pentium 4 3GHz) barely reaching 45 degrees centigrade during highest load and all metal parts inside the case, including the harddrive being virtually cold to the touch.

does that VGA silencer cool the ram chips too ? what about those on the back of the card ? as I said, there are no stability problems, even when overclocking, so the temperatures don't seem to be that much over the top; but it still seems waaay too hot for me.
btw, you can't touch the ram chips on this card (not that you'd want to; it would probably help if you wanted to remove your fingerprints permanently... ) because the heatsink covers them on the front and a simple heatsink (read: metal plate) on the back of the card.

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