MSI A88XM-E45 coil whine? or other annoying sound

My new system is producing a high pitched sound that sounds similar to an old HDD seeking but higher pitched and sometimes more like a constant whine. It only occurs when The graphics chip is working, if I restart X in Linux it stops until I've logged back in and seems to respond differently depending upon what is displayed on the screen. For example, if the background is solid black it will correspond 100% to moving the mouse cursor and will otherwise be silent. I may only be hearing this because it's my first silent build and would be extremely silent without this issue. Be that as it may, it's very annoying. Has anyone here heard of an issue like this before? I really don't know where to begin as far as troubleshooting goes.
System specs:
Corsair Obsidian 550D case
MSI A88XM-E45 mobo
AMD 7850K "Kaveri" APU
G.SKILL RipjawsX F3-2133C9D-16GXH 16GB 2X8GB DDR3-2133
no video card
Dual Acer H236HL Bid monitors
2 x ADATA SX900 2.5" 128GB SSD in RAID0
6 HDDs between 320GB and 3TB in an LVM2 volume group for storage (~6.5TB total)
Seasonic S12 600watt PSU (9 years old and still producing rock solid voltages) <-- I will be replacing this with a Seasonic X-460FLII Fanless 460watt PSU as soon as it arrives
6 x GELID Solutions Silent 12 fans connected to a Swiftech 8W-PWM-SPL-ST 8 Way PWM Splitter
Two of those fans are on a Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler, the other 4 are case fans, all are connected to the splitter which is connected to the CPU fan header and a SATA power connector via a SATA to Molex adapter

Quote from: badboy2k on 04-May-14, 08:05:39
can you record the sound and upload it somewhere and give us a link?
it may be coil wine and possibly it may be coming from your power supply so see if you can isolate where its coming from?
Unfortunately I don't have anything resembling a decent microphone. However I will be getting a new power supply relatively soon (it's back-ordered) I'll reply to this thread if the sound persists.

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