I have been watching this thread from start. I don't want to set fires or something, but i believe that all the chit-chat here is POINTLESS. I watch Ken-Intel (which i honestly thank for all the help trying to provide) trying to answer a problem that NEVER should have been there in the first place. Everybody else is trying to follow Ken-intel's instructions, setting caps and limiters to everything so as to limit the overheating that the BEST HASWELL K CPU is producing. This thread should be about how to overclock 4790K and not underclock it. PLEASE INTEL just admit that you screwed up on this one. I am also using intel cpus from 8088 4,77Mhz without ever having problems, but with this one, complete disappointment. Please intel do the right thing and offer a refund. That's the least you can do to everybody that coughed up 330 USD of their hard earned money, for a defective product.
I know that my comment is not a constructive approach to this thread, but in my life, i am used to tell things the way they are. And because of my 30 year experience in computers, the only term with which i can describe the situation is the CharlieFoxtrot acronym.