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When it asks, click the 'Just Stress Testing' button to skip creating an account.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Just download the Prime95 ZIP file, extract it, and launch Prime95.exe. Prime95 is also a portable app, so you don't have to install it. Related: What Is a 'Portable' App, and Why Does It Matter? It's an older app, but will work with pretty much any version of Windows-from XP all the way through 10. It’s part of a distributed computing project for finding Mersenne prime numbers, but it includes torture test and benchmark modes. Prime95 is a CPU stress test and benchmark tool popular among overclockers. Stress Test and Benchmark Your CPU with Prime95 We'll let you know about how long you can expect each tool to take.

And plan to run your benchmarks when you won't need your PC for a while, since some of these tools can take a while to run their tests. If an app is crunching away in the background, it will slow down the benchmark and skew the results.

Before performing any benchmark, ensure that nothing else is running on your computer.

Free for mac instal 3D.Benchmark.OK 2.01