[pHaestus]

Let me get this straight:

Intel developed the TTV to help heatsink companies with PR? Now you're just being stupid and grasping at straws. Intel developed the ttv so that oems can have a reliable and repeatable test platform for heatsink development. They make new ttvs as new chips come out, and can send them to the many cooler mfgrs and oem PC mfgrs with mobo without concerns. Basically Intel knows the thermal properties of their CPUs before the production CPUs are available, and they send their best simulation of those thermal properties (including packaging/mounting/etc) to the companies that need to account for that information.

The above is publicly known! What makes a TTV running in a lab with engineers inferior to a copper hunk with a thermocouple in it again? You presume that you can better replicate the thermal characteristics of a CPU with a garage shop than the people who made the damn CPU!

And ask the mfgrs to defend themselves? Hah