[pHaestus]

I'm actually suggesting that anyone with sense would avoid posting technical reviews altogether because regardless of the decisions you make at the frontend in designing the tests, there are problems. And if someone decides they don't like your results because they don't agree with their marketing then they can denigrate you on the internet until you're marginalized and move on to the next "up and coming" tester. Basically this whole shit-slinging has turned technical reviewing into a popularity contest in my eyes.

A popularity contest that one can only win if the results agree with the popular performance perception of the product before testing. So why even bother?

Name the "ideal" test solution and I'll find the flaws with it. Feel free to say "test with an AMD64 bare and IHS, Intel 775, die sim, AND ttv" and I'll point out it'd take about 50 hours per waterblock review.