how does prime95 work??

[mato7742]

i'm OCing my cpu and many people suggest i use prime95 to test the stability of my machine - however i have prime95 and cpuz to do the test, but what exactly do i do with prime95 once i have it running and such? after about 12 hours where and how would i check if my system is stable?

 

[igowerf]

If your system is unstable, Prime95 will crash.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: igowerf
If your system is unstable, Prime95 will crash.

yep that's about the gist of it

 

[WobbleWobble]

Prime95 performs very complex mathematical calculations and compares the result generated from your computer with a list of known good results. If your result does not match the good ones, then it'll raise an error and tell you.

If you were able to run it for over 12 hours, your system should be mostly stable.