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[QUOTE=Mmoore2434;427068]I was planning to get this, as during early morning and night i leave my computer on but not doing anything. I was wondering if its possible to turn the program down during the day while i use my computer, then leave it running full blast at night when im not playing my computer :)

Thanks for the early response

PS: my computer teacher said its bad for the CPU to go idle, so would running this help it not go fully idle?[/QUOTE]

The best I can guess, your teacher may have been thinking of a very small % of systems that are actually buggy and will have problems coming out of a sleep state. For nearly all systems though, idling or even going into full suspend mode is just fine. Running at full throttle is harder on the CPU because you're giving it a lot of thermal stress (which it *should* be able to handle if the cooling is designed correctly).

Regarding the ability to run only at certain times, yes, it can do that.

Read the "undoc.txt" file that comes with Prime95 and in particular the "PauseWhileRunning" option you can add to prime.txt.

It can tell Prime95 to pause when certain programs are running, or during certain times of day (or both).

To simply tell it to pause during something like 9-5 work hours, you might try:
PauseWhileRunning= * during 09:00-17:00

(I seem to recall that the last time this topic came up recently, there needs to be a space before the asterisk...not sure if that's a bug, but that makes it work as expected).

Search on the forum here for "PauseWhileRunning" and you'll find it discussed.