I have had similar although not as extreme problems with my HD3870, after removing the plastic base cover i noticed that the base of the S1 would not align properly with the GPU if i used the plastic supports, so i just skipped those, so far so good
btw, i dont have a fan mounted on the S1
Could be worth checking out
About to give up trying to cool my 4850 with S1 rev 2
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