I am glad to hear that your RMA was successful, They can be a pain at times. I am sorry to hear that you are still having problems.
Your opinion is appreciated, however...
I would like to see these graphs/charts on the internet to which you are referring to as from my experience and understanding; this setup would indeed be cpu bound as it is too weak for the gpu.
The Haswell and the devil's canyon refresh 4790k was the pinnacle of a gaming processor back in 2013-2015 and some may still be going strong today, but will start to show their age with modern gaming. Which is probably why you are having problems with games such as battlefield V and outer worlds that rely on having higher thread counts than the 4790 can handle, especially on poorly ported console games.
It is a shame that you don't have the K variant in terms of even greater longevity this way you may even avoid (I'm guessing here) micro stutters? (even with a half decent fps of about 60-80?) with a simple overclock assuming that you have a z board.
If you are still happy with it's performance; more power to you. Keep using for years to come.
Testing a faulty card with a 600, 700 or even a 1200w psu will always get the same result of course; I agree.
However there is a reason why in the set up guide provided by the manufactures, that the recommended psu is 700w. For a stable gaming experience and an efficient psu that is not being pushed to it's absolute capacity under prolonged loads; I strongly recommend this also. If you want to ignore it, go right ahead, have nice day and good luck to you.
