Whine - Heard through external speakers!

I don't think I saw anyone with this yet, although forgive me if it's common knowledge already, but, I just hooked up some external speakers (ones on my external LCD monitor) to my MBP, and I can hear the whine through them! It doesn't matter if the volume is muted, or up all the way, I can hear the whine at the same level. I confirmed that it was indeed the CPU whine by disabline the 2nd core. When I do, the whine goes away (on the laptop and through the speakers). I don't know where to go from here (maybe send it in AGAIN to have the logicboard replaced?), but I figured I'd let everyone know!

I also had this problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2813486&#2813486
The only solution offered by Apple was not using a Macbook Pro, because the noise is "within spec". So I reluctantly returned it.
Note that I'm talking about a 17" Macbook Pro from week 25. That is what Apple said there is no solution for (because there is no problem) - it might be different for yours.

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