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RM Clock is a CPU management utility that allows you to adjust various voltage, multiplier, and power settings for your CPU. It also allows you to adjust power settings outside of manufacturer specifications (ex, overclock or undervolt). It is free and uses profiles.
As for your whining issue, I think you have to disable a certain CPU state called C3 through the BIOS; but I'm not sure. I do however know that RMCloclk won't fix it. Wait for someone else to confirm this just to be sure.
RMClock, short for RightMark CPU Clock Utility (formerly known as AMD64CLK), is free* software developed by iXBT.com, distributed under the brand RightMark Gathering.
RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling, load level monitoring, and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level on supported CPU models via the processor's power management model-specific registers (MSRs). In automatic management mode it continuously monitors the CPU usage level and dynamically adjusts the CPU frequency, throttle and/or voltage level as needed, realizing the "Performance on Demand" concept.
I had an old HP Intel Centrino laptop that had the whine. It was extremely noticeable running on battery.
After checking some power management option and having RMClock startup automatically, the whine was significantly reduced. I used RMClock for that sole reason.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
