Frustraited with Z68A-GD65 G3 Throttling issues

Well, I can't seem to beat these throttling issues. I've now successfully tried every single Beta BIOS including V23.3B4 (N34) which many claim seems to have fixed the throttling issues, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
In the past couple of hours I've tried N34, N48, N49, N60, N40, and every other beta bios lised in https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=151148.200 that thread.
I've disabled everything in the BIOS that could have anything to do with this to my knowledge, but could someone please provide a list of things that must be turned off to prevent throttling? I've turned off everythign I can see/think of....But still, I boot into windows, running at 50x100 at 1.4vcore, everything's running smooth, run Intel Burn Test, and immediately watch the multi in cpu-z as well as realtemp drop to around 41 or 44 or 46, it bounces around, but WILL NOT STAY at 50!!!!! ?!?!
I've read somewhere that the original BIOS version, N00, did not throttle - does anyone know where I can get it to give that a shot?

Quote from: Bernhard on 30-January-12, 14:02:01
Lets keep the language to standard English please. This is an international forum and slang is not understood by everyone.
If your CPU is limited at 4,6 with a reasonable voltage, then accept that. Yes, you can push it further with huge voltage increases, but at the risk of ruining the CPU. Some CPUs just need more voltage than others.
This thread is about throttling, lets focus on that. If you have another issue, then start a new thread.
No problems with my throttling.
HU16E was hinting towards a setting in the CPU features.  Not voltage but related to TDP.  
My 2500k can pass Intel Burn Test with 1.35v at 4.6GHZ no problem.  However any multiplier higher than 46 and I have to massively increase voltage to get it stable.  The voltage beyond 1.35v at 4.6ghz doesn't seem to be scaling correctly.  There is no offset voltage setting on the BIOS and I'm not sure which settings HU16E is hinting towards.  
I think there is some type of electronic harmonic inbalance when I increase voltage beyond 1.36v.  I have a very good power supply.  I have fantastic water cooling.  I have a great cpu from what I can see for it's ability to run stable with auto voltage at the 4.6GHZ mark with x46 multiplier.
I don't think my CPU is at it's max potential.  I just think a BIOS setting is off or there is a better BIOS that I need to be running for over clocking.  I'm running the official v23.6 right now.

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