Screeching whine when pushing graphics card

Hi! I have a month-old T61p with the nVidia Quadro FX 570M. Recently, I installed Gentoo on it, and so far everything is good except that when I ran glxgears my laptop makes this screeching, whine sound. My problem is like this one: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=254947
After Google-ing a bit, this problem seems to be somewhat common. Is this something I should be worried about, or is it normal behavior?? I rarely run graphics-intensive programs, so I can live with it.

The sound is coil whine. It's a common "issue" with vgas and psus. The sound deoends on the load level of the vga or psu. The more load the louder the sound. Without 3d load it stops. As the vga causes a lot of power demand the psu can also "whine" exactly following the vgas load situation. That means it is not easy to determine if it is the psu or the vga that causes the sound you hear. Anyway it is no real problem except for the sound itself. It is no sign of dying or a defect.

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