Prime95 is basically a Mersenne prime number discovery program. It's a great example of Distributed Computing, but it's most loved by overclockers for its powerful system stress-testing and benchmarking abilities. It can torture-test your CPU to produce its maximum heat or spit out any errors due to excessive overclocking. Also, using the blend test, it can consume all your physical memory and run error-checking tests on your modules to ensure their quality. However, right now, we're mostly interested in it for its benchmarking capabilities.

Here are the times for the Intel Pentium 4 660, AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, AMD Athlon 3800+ and AMD Athlon 4000+ (less is better).

It is strange that the 4000+ reported the worst performance of all these CPUs. However, it seems that the performance of the 3800+ and the 4000+ have many similarities.