I just built three identical AMD64 X2 (4400+) systems for workstations at my office. I won't be overclocking these since they're business machines, but I still like to stress test any new assemblies before I hand them off to the recipient. I've used Prime95 before, but never on a dual core system.
I ran two instances, each with a different -A parameter. I set the affinity of one for core 0 and the other for core 1, and then began the torture test on each. What I noticed was that on the first round (8K FFT), core 0 ran five tests but core 1 ran only four. Both cores passed. I kept it going for a round with 10K FFT and both cores ran 5 tests before passing.
I've seen this question asked before, but I've never seen it answered. Why did one core run more tests than the other? I'm not really worried about it since it's not a failure, but I'm curious what the explanation for this behavior is.
I ran two instances, each with a different -A parameter. I set the affinity of one for core 0 and the other for core 1, and then began the torture test on each. What I noticed was that on the first round (8K FFT), core 0 ran five tests but core 1 ran only four. Both cores passed. I kept it going for a round with 10K FFT and both cores ran 5 tests before passing.
I've seen this question asked before, but I've never seen it answered. Why did one core run more tests than the other? I'm not really worried about it since it's not a failure, but I'm curious what the explanation for this behavior is.
