Quote Originally Posted by L'enFer View Post
Room temperature, case, amount of blowing in/out fans in it, thermal compound, etc...
And who would pay the people conducting the tests to be able to apply to all these standards?

I'm sorry but you are getting kinda unrealistic.
You should keep in mind that the enthusiast market is not the part of the IT market where most of the money is made.
It may have come a long way and now each and every idiot claims to be able to "build" a computer and understand how it works. However, this doesn't mean that it's as important as to introduce standards for heatsink testing for example.

BTW, if you have a bit of background knowledge in the field of physics/engineering and such, you should be able to decide on your own which tests seem reliable and which are not. I really really doubt that we ever will see any kind of standards or something in that range for enthusiast only sections like extreme air-cooling.