Ok I give up. I have been fighting with this for a little bit now, and I need some help.
Anytime I have something running on my computer that is java related, my GPU is running at full speed and heats up to over 70C. This can be anything from a web app, to minecraft. I see no lag when this happens so my performance isn't suffering. I am just not a fan of my GPU running full speed and heating up.
I am running a AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series and I have the latest drivers. I am also running 64 bit java with windows 7 64 bit. This just does not make sense and I have been looking for some kind of information for a while.
I had 32 bit java installed initially but then upgraded to 64 bit. That was a bit of trouble because the 32 bit version would not uninstall for some reason. I ended up screwing up the install and having reinstall to uninstall. Currently I only have 64 bit java running and installed now that I have gotten the other versions cleaned up.