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Prime95 is a program that searches for new Mersenne prime numbers. It is commonly used as a stability test for overclocked computers.

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  • Free
  • Proprietary

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  Portable
  2.  Stress Testing
  3.  Overclock
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What is Prime95?

Prime95, also distributed as the command-line utility mprime for FreeBSD and Linux, is a freeware application written by George Woltman. It is the official client of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a volunteer computing project dedicated to searching for Mersenne primes. It is also used in overclocking to test for system stability.[4]