What is this "Prime 95" I frequently see?

[ulillillia]

What is Prime 95? Is it some sort of video game or something? I see this referenced a lot and as far as I can tell, it's something to put the system under great load to test stuff (though exactly what, that I don't know).

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

[:briovaz:3]

 

[nikorr]

We "all" use Prime95 to test the stability of our system.

The purpose of Prime95 is twofold:
(1) test a prospective machine to see if it is stable enough to execute the Prime95 code
(2) test for Mersenne primes.


http://www.overclock.net/t/18731/info-prime95-primes-and-stability-testing

 

[ulillillia]

Best answer selected by ulillillia.

 

[nikorr]

Thanks for the vote : )

 

[nikorr]

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