Maximus VIII Hero making weird clicking sounds once in a while?

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Noirgheos

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Usually this only happens on boot-up or shut down, which I'm totally fine with, but recently, its begun to happen when playing games as well. Random clicks. The system is totally fine, passing all benchmarks I throw at it. I've also tested the motherboard in three different cases, so I can confirm that it is the motherboard.

Could this be some kind mechanical switching? If so, is there any way to disable it? A quick circuit analysis I did seems to be pointing at the audio doing this...

My BIOS is early 2015, could updating it solve it?

Just in case:

EVGA 850 P2 is my PSU and the Enthoo Evolv ATX is my current case.
 
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Noirgheos

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No HDDs in my build. SSDs only. No case fans are running, only my Noctua NF-F12, which has always been quiet, my PSU (850 P2) hasn't done this on two other motherboards. I mean, I could deal with it. I'm planning on getting a Z270 Hero or Strix once they are out, and hopefully this will not be an issue on them. I will try a BIOS update tomorrow morning. Heck, my old Maximus VII Hero only ever did this on shut down.

If I do switch, my 6700K and RAM will have gone through three total motherboards. A little annoying, to be quite honest.
 
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Noirgheos

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Unfortunately, I don't have any, but I have tried different motherboards with this PSU, I either only got clicks on boot or shut down. It happening while gaming is new. It could be the PSU just suddenly decided to go bad. but I doubt it. Clicking on the VIII Hero seems to be a common issue... I just hppe the Z270 IX Hero doesn't have it, or I'm out of luck.

By chance, what PSU do you have?
 
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