Bongle reviews

[malibutomi]

I can't achieve 5 start even tho i do everything right.
Just now i built a PC for someone, it ticked every box, was in time, customer satisfaction list: used all new part, used MSI components so that's 2 plus points...review is: " I love the specs of the new PC"...so he was super satisfied and left a 1 (one) star rating.

[BonPadre]

A 1 star rating in a new build may mean a few things.

Most imply a possible BSOD if you had run a benchmark, but there is one instance of a possible 1 star rating without a BSOD.

Reasons possible with BSOD :
- Forgot thermal paste
- Not enough wattage to run the PC at full power
- Possible BSOD resulting of any iterations in BIOS like overclocking
- Overclocking any overclockable parts, and running into heat BSOD

Last reason without BSOD :

If you OC the CPU, you have a temperature at which you don't have a BSOD, but yet the CPU throttles to not get too hot.

Anyway, a very good tool to check al that is OCCT.

You need to run OCCT on infinite mode for at least a good minute, to let the power build up until it's stable. When the max wattage is stable, and you did not BSOD, you also need to check if the CPU is NOT throttling.

If it throttle, you need to either downclock it until it does not throttle anymore, or you need to have better cooling solutions (like a better CPU cooler, adding case fans with the best possible CFM, etc.)

[T-Bone Biggins]

Try to leave some overhead in the PSU and cooling capacity of a PC. For example to be safe on PSU's I get a 550w for a single-GPU system and I fill every space in the case I can with 120mm/140mm fans. This doesn't cost much and prevents MANY problems, and if heat is still critical in higher performance builds as you approach 10k on the 3dMark score be sure to use Corsair fans which you unlock early and have a much higher CFM rating in the exact same slots.

The guy above mentioned OCCT but on lower levels you do not have access to that program. A simple method to check of overheating is to install the pink "System Info" program alongside 3dMark. When you restart you run System Info first then turn on 3dMark. Now 3dMark will show temperature and power usage numbers so you can see if you are getting too hot or using up all the wattage in the PSU. Pay attention in the 2nd sequence when it begins using the GPU/GPU's, that's when a power spike will shut down an insufficient PSU.

EDIT: Oh yeah don't get too froggy on that Bongle 5-star thing, most jobs require 4-stars and you basically need to take your time and get ~25 jobs done perfectly to get that rating. Even then it only takes one missed colored cable in a blind spot on a case and you are back down to 4-stars until you do enough perfect jobs to bury that bad review on Bongle again.