Prime95 - test your PC's stability

[swytch]

Have you ever wanted to test your PC's stability or custom built a new PC and needed to "burn it in" to make sure it's stable for sale?  I know that there are various tools out there but Prine95 is arguably one of the homebrew geek's favs.

Description Taken from this site's link:

"For overclockers, Prime95 has a feature called "Torture Test" that allows maximum stress testing on the CPU and RAM. There are several options allowing the stress test to focus on the memory, processor, or a balance of both.

Usually Prime95 will detect an error within a matter of minutes if an overclock is not stable, however many people like to let the system "burn-in" overnight to ensure long-term stability.

The benefit of this version is that it is multi-threaded and will automatically manage worker threads to fully stress all cores of your CPU. "

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103

Now.. don't let this product scare you.  Go ahead, give it a test.   


Anyone use any other product similar to this?



Swytch~~