rmartin558

As far as I know, NVIDIA bans preorder sales.
In my experience, Canada doesn't see hardware on launch days at all. Maybe others can chime in if I'm wrong about this.
You miiight be able to order from US sale points and get it shipped to Canada. I haven't tried this personally.

Hey all, first time (hopeful) buyer of a newly launched graphics card here from Canada, I've never tried buying anything at launch and I had a few questions that hopefully the more seasoned purchasers among you can help answer. I know nobody short of Nvidia knows for sure, I just want educated guesses!
 
1. Does a preorder still seem likely or would it just go live for purchases on Sept 17? Also, what time during the day do they usually go live?
2. How long would I have after preorders/orders open to nab one? Seconds/Minutes? 
3. Since I'm in Canada, do I just order from the website like you would in the US? I keep getting redirected to the US site even after selecting Canada in the region, so I'm assuming this is the case.
4. Any tips or tricks for the launch?
 
Thanks in advance for your answers/guidance!

that's in the "boost table" for multiple cores. basically what PBO does is check a massive chart of preferred values from AMD. 
the CPU goes "i'm running a # of my cores with temperature average X degC and power requirement % of max power Y" and the chart looks up what values it can run for power and frequency at that load, then it tells the CPU to run at whatever frequency works in that cell of the chart. 
 
you can try running 4 workers instead of all workers and see if the frequency boosts up higher. there's different frequencies for all cores, single core, 4, 8 etc which are based on other factors on the CPU including temps but also power and length of time at a specific frequency

I mean you should probably go with Ryzen (I'd say the 3900x), and some 3200mhz ram, if your budget is $3000 32GB of ram seems very reasonable.

 

650w is more than enough if it is a good psu.

Sh!t my bad lol, I forgot which is which. 

Yeah. PRobably right. What was with the 3200mhz ram tho? 3600 is ryzen sweet spot.

it 3000, the extra 16gb can be snuck in.

I mean you should probably go with Ryzen (I'd say the 3900x), and some 3200mhz ram, if your budget is $3000 32GB of ram seems very reasonable.

 

I hope you're not colorblind, if this graphic doesn't help, I can show how to connect it all in a different way:
 

Hello and welcome.
 
We don't recommend Hwmonitor for anything Ryzen.  Please don't listen to that advice.  Use HWiNFO.
 
If  @rmartin558 is running at speeds in the 3.8GHz range then the CPU is probably not using much voltage and the temps make sense.  Especially with a 20*C ambient.  Again, don't use HWmonitor with Ryzen.  Use HWiNFO.  

You can play with the PBO settings or use the EDC bug to get more speed, but you WILL see higher temps. 
 
Also sounds like a lot of that cool ambient air is making it into the case so that helps a lot.  If that room was 7*C warmer the CPU would definitely show it.  

noctua thermal paste is actually pretty good, same stuff they sell separately so no worries there. 
everything there looks normal, package power is scaling up like it should, actually looks like you got a really solid silicon lottery chip that runs cool at full load. nothing really standing out.