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Would Prime95 be likely to damage hardware if ran for a prolonged period on aws/gce/azure? Do they have anything in their contracts telling you not to do that?
by ah- 9y ago
Would Prime95 be likely to damage hardware if ran for a prolonged period on aws/gce/azure?
Do they have anything in their contracts telling you not to do that?
- deagle50 9y agoThe hypervisor could throttle the workload even if it lit up the entire physical node (which is unlikely). The CPU could also throttle itself, the instances where Prime fried CPUs were due to overclockers forcing high frequencies and voltages AFAIK.