disabling QE/CI is definetely not an option...

1.I love QE/CI
2.Without it I cannot play any sort of video and most of my videos are in 720p (.mkv)
3.Some apps don't run without QE/CI like vmware fusion - numbers - pages

I have a pretty large fan that blows directly above my card, doesn't it have any effect?
and also my power supply's fan blows directly on the graphics card. Is that air supposed to be hot or not?

Also is there any way for me to find out the card's temperature?
I tried istatpro and Hardware monitor but there was no Graphic card temperature indicator