Whenever Retina Mac Book Pro runs HOT - FCPx runs NOT - And it does so A LOT

These past weeks I have been doing more and more work on the Retina Mac Book Pro. Only thing that has been bugging me is that I cannot seem to rely on its performance. At times FCPx is blazing fast and others so slow that one could think I was running it on an iMac from 1998.
Once it gets slow... It will take about 5 seconds for a clip that I select in the event browser to appear in the viewer. And i.e clicking the inspector will take about 4-8 seconds for it to open...
So I decided to troubleshoot.
Basically it is VERY simple.. Whenever the fans start churning on the Retina Mac Book Pro, the whole app simply quits performing. Shutting down the computer for about 10 minutes will alleviate the problem. Other strange thing is that no other app seems to be affected by this issue. PPRO, AE, Photoshop, Aperture, Safari etc etc etc... Only FPCx and Motion. I have not experienced this problem on any of my Mac Pros.
Problem is that the fans start spinning like crazy only after 10 min. of working in FCPx. And that with Proxy Media.
I have been noticing that people on newer (Thinner) iMacs are complaining over performance issue and wonder whether those might be heat related as well.
If anyone else are experience such issues, I sure would like to hear about it. And if anyone has suggestions to a possible workaround I too would love to hear about it as this is killing my workflow !
Thanks
Specs
rMBP 2.6 GHZ | 512 SSD | 16 GB RAM | 1GB NVIDIA Graphcis (Always set to high performance)
OS X 10.8.2 | FCPx 10.0.7

Studio Engineer wrote:
… no other app seems to be affected by this issue. PPRO, AE, Photoshop, Aperture, Safari etc etc etc... Only FPCx and Motion.
me no engineer ... ahh, you did know that!
but …
Aren't FCPX + M5 the apps in your list which rely most on the graphic card? I'm not familiar with Grand Central and other OS-designs, nor can i confirm a built-in heat-sensor for that part of the Mac, there are sensors erverywhere - why not? …
But if I had designed the graphic-card as co-processor, this would be essentiell.
And your observation and conclusions make a lot of sense!

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