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Details for Prime95 (UNOFFICIAL)

License

  • Proprietary

Last updated

  • 14 February 2026 - latest/stable
  • 18 February 2026 - latest/edge

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Free Mersenne Prime Search Software

The 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.

NOTICE

This is not an official distribution of the Prime95 software. It is not a distribution either as the software itself isn't necessarily redistributable according to the upstream's EULA. The actual software will be downloaded from the upstream's official website during launch. As we cannot certify the integrity of the software downloaded from the upstream's official website, we cannot guarantee the security of this snap. Please use it at your own risk.

If you encounter any problems while using this snap, please report them to the snap's own issue tracker:

https://gitlab.com/brlin/prime95-snap/-/issues

Thank you for your cooperation.


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