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Buzzing/squealing problems - Motherboard?

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This weekend, I needed to buy a computer, so after some research on what would be available now, I picked up an i7-950 and Gigabyte X58-USB3 at Microcenter. When I got home and installed them, I noticed an extremely annoying high pitched noise, coming most likely from the motherboard (it isn't coming from anywhere near the power supply, thankfully). I did a little research online, and it seems like there are some problems with Gigabyte boards and high pitched noise. My question is, should I return the board to Microcenter and get a new one, to see if that fixes the problem? I most likely will, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions.

I can get the buzzing to get marginally less annoying by disabling CPU power saving in the bios, and using Gigabyte's "Energy saver 2" program on it's highest setting.

My build, for reference:

i7-950 w/ CM Hyper 212 plus cooler
Gigabyte X58-USB3
2GB DDR3-1333 memory (another 8gb on the way from newegg)
MSI N460GTX Hawk 1GB (I have used this card in another build, and it doesn't make any noises, hopefully ruling it out as the culprit)
Corsair CMPSU-750TX Power Supply (also tested in another core 2 duo build)

Thanks for any help.
 
If you can rule out the video card than it really is down to the power supply or the motherboard

Most of this sort of thing would come from the top left hand of the board, are you able to tell if this is where the noise is coming from?

If you do return it I would look at the Gigabyte UD3R or the UD5 - much better layouts and voltage regulators.

*edit*
I run a TX750 on my i7 920 rig that I have listed below more as an FYI

In doing a little bit of Googling on the topic the USB3 seems to have a lot of complaints about it. As I said before probably not a bad idea to look at a higher end board for such an awesome CPU
 
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