Same situation on my Lenovo T500 Notebook with the following card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV635 
[Mobility Radeon HD 3650]
If my Notebook is in IDLE-state the temperature stays about 75° and I hear the 
noise of the fan nearly all the time. Heavy load increases temp to over 90° and 
it will shutdown due to the overheating limits of kernel.
My workaround is switching to intel hd graphics in bios because setting power 
profile to low seems to be slower than using the integrated graphics adapter. 
Thats obviously no real solution because I want to use the full power of the 
ati graphics card without switching to fglrx driver.

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Title:
  Overheating AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M500 ATI RV710Mobility
  Radeon HD 4300

Status in X.org XServer - ATI gfx chipset driver:
  Confirmed
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ever since upgrading from Maverick (with GNOME Classic) to Precise
  (using Unity 2D since using the default Unity makes the situation
  worse) my note book regularly overheats with normal usage:

  I've been regularly using:
  echo low | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

  I've am also using psensor to warn me if the temperature rises above
  92°.  When 'idle' the temperature is at about 80°.  If the CPU is used
  (merely starting eclipse and letting all the the startup validation
  processes finish) it quickly rises to 88°.  If the usages is sustained
  (rebuilding a java project) the temperature oscillates between 95° and
  98°.  If I do anything else that adds to the load (ie. if the
  temperature is >98° for short period of time), the system freezes, but
  the everything remains on, fans and CPU temperature stays up.  I need
  to turn off the notebook by keeping the power button pressed.

  Note that this system overheats /with/ the low power profile.

  Here are some general stats about this system, please let me know, if
  I can provide further information:

  HP Presario CQ61 320eg
  AMD Turion(tm) II Dual-Core Mobile M500
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 
[Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Linux schiefer 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:29:15 UTC 2012 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  ayers@schiefer:~$ lsmod|grep rad
  radeon                804503  2 
  ttm                    76949  1 radeon
  drm_kms_helper         46978  1 radeon
  drm                   241921  4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
  i2c_algo_bit           13423  1 radeon

  This started after the upgrading from Maverick.  I'm currently running
  Precise with the 2D Unity desktop.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: 
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,grid,resize,snap,vpswitch,move,mousepoll,wall,place,imgpng,gnomecompat,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,session,animation,fade,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  Date: Sun Nov 18 14:30:50 2012
  DistUpgraded: 2012-04-29 09:57:42,118 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: precise
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes,
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series] 
[1002:9552] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3652]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Presario CQ61 Notebook PC
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-33-generic 
root=/dev/mapper/vg--hostname-lv--ubuntu ro vga=795 quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-29 (203 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/10/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: F.07
  dmi.board.name: 3652
  dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
  dmi.board.version: 42.14
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.07:bd10/10/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnPresarioCQ61NotebookPC:pvr0392100000210D10000020000:rvnQuanta:rn3652:rvr42.14:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: Presario CQ61 Notebook PC
  dmi.product.version: 0392100000210D10000020000
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.4-0ubuntu0.2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.4-0ubuntu0.2
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 
1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4.2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 
1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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