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		ah- on May 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD Announces Ryzen Update: Enables Memory Clocks ... 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 on May 26, 2017 [–]

The 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.

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