... you persuade your dad that a dual Xeon system _is_ the minimum requirement today to print his shopping list

... you convince greenpeace headquarters, that prime95 is a distributed neural net to simulate drug effects in primates. No more primate research labs :)

. . . you buy each of your six children a PC, that they can use it for whatever they want, *but* stipulate that they must leave it powered on running prime95 at all times.

[quote="nomadicus"]. . . you buy each of your six children a PC, that they can use it for whatever they want, *but* stipulate that they must leave it powered on running prime95 at all times.[/quote]
... and then mourn the CPU cycles lost every time they actually use the thing. (Been there ;) )

[quote="dswanson"]... and then mourn the CPU cycles lost every time they actually use the thing. (Been there ;) )[/quote]
Geez! Isn't that the truth!

Hey, I have one kid with 6 computers, what is wrong with that??


:banana:

... Buy a set of Bose noise cancelling headphones so you can sleep with the bedroom door open (computers are in the dining room...)

You build this :mrgreen:

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Prime Monster

[quote="nomadicus"]. . . you buy each of your six children a PC, that they can use it for whatever they want, *but* stipulate that they must leave it powered on running prime95 at all times.[/quote]You have more children so you can justify buying more computers.

You cry, just because M40# is composite
:( :( :( :(

you need counselling from all the traumatic stress of watching stats, and worrying about if you might be able to find a prime.

... if you've been a participant since before PrimeNet was public. :D :D