Second Ati 3870 and STILL noisy!

Hi,
I just got a replacement Ati radeon 3870 because the first cards fans didn't run at all for a minute or so and would then spin up full for 30 seconds or so and so forth, regardless of what i was doing.
My replacement card came today but this cards fan runs full all of the time!!!!????????
Surely this is a driver or fan control issue or something, my previous nvidia 8800GT was silent all of the time, but alas I could not play Call of Duty 2 with that card hence the switch.
Is there anything i can do to help cool the card besides fitting aftermarket fans which i don't feel confident doing and they don't seem to support the 3870 100%. Maybe open up the PCI slots or upping the Mac Pros fans via SMC Fan Control?
Or do i return it and switch back to a 8800gt and forfit Call Of Duty 2 or wait and switch it for a 4870?
I'm going to try and live with the fan noise tonight but does anyone own a quiet 3870?

Have you tried running Apple Hardware Test?
I wonder if there could be an underlying problem, seeing how it is the same under Windows - and you installed ATI latest Catalyst after uninstall and deleting old prior drivers - can't have ATI and Nvidia drivers or cards in Windows.
Sounds like "old stock" from early batches back in Aug/Sept.
Was just reading an article on power and noice:
Of course, noise levels will vary greatly in the real world along with the acoustic properties of the PC enclosure used, whether the enclosure provides adequate cooling to avoid a card's highest fan speeds, placement of the enclosure in the room, and a whole range of other variables. These results should give a reasonably good picture of comparative fan noise, though.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16504/10
And there are some faulty cooling and fan units out there (I had Radeon 9800 where fan would die, it was too hot for G4 MDD) ATI has not been great (X1900 was terrible design also). I try to use eVGA (Nvidia) when possible.
+Asus custom coolers get caught in the CrossFire+
The Radeon HD 4850 was an instant hit around these parts, but the first implementations caused us to raise (or is it singe?) an eyebrow over their thermals. Their single-slot coolers were never very beefy, and AMD tuned their fan speed control points pretty aggressively for good acoustics. The result was GPU temperatures approaching 90°C under load and idle temperatures around 80°C. Nothing to be worried about, according to AMD, but those temps were high enough to prompt us to look forward to 4850 cards with aftermarket cooling.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16229/4
People have used copper coolers for 8800 and for ATI Radeon.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/8800GTAcceleroS1/8800GTAcceleroS1R2.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186016
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/productinfo.php?cPath=2&mID=105&language=en

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