Orthos and E6700 weirdness

[imported_Salamander]

I have a new system, built about a month ago. Bad Axe 2, E6700, and WIndows XP. When I first built it, I used Orthos to stress test, and usd it several times as I did some overclocking. The 2 CPUs pretty much stayed together on the tests - when CPU#0 started test 3, CPU#1 started test 3 as well - with one of the CPUs getting a little bit ahead as the testing continued, but not by much.

Tonight I decided to run Orthos again, just to see if things had changed now that I've been using the system in real world conditions for awhile. Lo and behold, suddenly the two CPUs are not even close to staying together in the tests. CPU #0 started test 2 a little over 7 minutes into the testing, at which point CPU#1 was well underway with test 5.

Is this change typical? Is this anything about which I should be concerned?

 

[IsenMike]

I don't really have an answer for you, but I had something similar happen to me. Here's the thread from about a month and a half ago. With me the second core just wouldn't make any progress on the tests at all. It went away when I rebooted, though, and it's still a mystery to me.

 

[PCTC2]

Just to keep redundant threads to a minimum, I'd like to add that I use the new Prime95 25.2 (dual thread version), but when i used v24 dual-instance, my first core would fail every few minutes (i would restart it each time it failed) but my second core would be stable for upwards of 5-8 hours (until i got bored). I would use the dual-instances because my computer would fail Orthos in a few minutes because of the first core.
(It's stable enough for all of my uses). Any help?