66.7% Zoom Max's Out CPU Usage

I've notice this before but never quantified it, if I open a shot at say 4000x3000 pxs in CS4, all is normal, however, when I zoom to 66.7% the CPU usage jumps to 80-90% and remains there. At all other zoom levels CPU usage is as low as expected, this seems to apply to any file format and is totally repeatable.
System Specs:
Design Premium CS4
Vista Home Premium SP1 (32 Bit)
4gb Ram
Dual Core E6750
2 Internal Hard Disks (250/500 Gb / 164/411 free) Scratch disk on Drive D
Nvidia 8600GT 256Mb
Memory Usage In Prefs set @ 70% - 1151MB (default)
Has anybody else experienced this?

Rob
I've just checked again and using the navigator to zoom, I'm getting the problem at 33.33%, 66.67 and now 100%. I can also replicate it at various manually entered zoom amounts from 65 -108%.
I tried again by disabling my AV (Kaspersky Internet Security 7) and this didn't make any difference.
Maybe something is 'fighting' with PS - While typing this, I just tried turning OpenGL off and restarting - The problem goes away. So I guess this is another one of those performance issues that hopefully will be fixed in the maintenance release. Re-starting OpenGL brings the problem back.

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