Subtle noise when scrolling, moving mouse, other screen activity

Let me say up front: this is *not* about fan noise. I know what fan noise is; I hear it like everyone else; this is something else.
The noise I am posting about is hard to describe, but it comes fairly close to classic hard drive noise but it can't be that in this case because my X220 has an SSD.
The noise occurs when I scroll in a window, or move the mouse across the screen. It is definitely associated with screen activity.
I would love to know what it is. I have it on another laptop as well (ThinkPad T61P).

I also noticed this noise and am curious as to what the sounds actually is. I can't imagine the CPU gets scaled each time the mouse moves a tenth of a milimeter.

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So I tried it while just at the desktop, and I heard the sound. My 17" (2 years old) wouldn't make any sounds during such movement, so I was wondering if this is normal. On startup, I sometimes hear a chirp/sound that seems louder than anything I would have heard on my 17".
I'm not too worried as I'm not having any problems, and I'm thinking about upgrading to a 7200 RPM drive in the Fall.
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Greetings.

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I had to disable it some time ago because it was causing me some problems, but as it seems that was happening because I didnt configure it.. I followed the wiki for ATi and KMS is working well now, and it seems that I dont have the scroll problem anymore..
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