where can i get prime95?

[lillazy23]

thanks

 

[RGN]

Go type Prime95 in yahoo and it will provide you with a link...

 

[Sugadaddy]

HERE

 

[lillazy23]

what is it for anyways?? benchmarking?

 

[Sugadaddy]

read the page I linked

Most use it for testing CPU stability. IMO it's the program that stresses your cpu the most.

 

[esung]

Odd.. you were asking where to find Prime95 and you have no idea what it's for? (and not even looking at the page)

Prime95/GIMPS is a distributed project to find Mersenne primes. so far it has been successful finding about 1 every year, (of course, larger and larger as we go). and there's a prize of $100000 if you found a mersenne prime that has 10 million digits, or $5000 per mersenne prime that's less then 10M digits.

but a lot of people use Prime95 for testing stability issue on OC CPUs, since it'll catch CPU errors that other program couldn't.