A similar Core i5-2550K vs. Core i7-2600K comparison would be interesting, as they share the same clock speed, while the former has 6 MB cache, lacks HTT, and has a slower uncore.

Yes, that's true. That's a good idea for another article.
I've also been thinking about doing a review, which shows the performance difference when HT is enabled and when it's disabled.

I guess AMD isn't relevant after all. Could at least have tested it with 1100T and FX8150 too. There are a lot of people with AMD, like me, who are curious to see how a 7970 would perform on our OC'd 1100T/8150.

Sure! Thanks for the suggestion! We'll test that too of course.

Well, that was unexpected, lol. Thanks for considering it! And don't forget to overclock it.

No problem, you're welcome :-)
I mean, it seems that you guys really want to know more about this topic. Hopefully I'll be able to put the next of these articles online next week.

These are great reviews, which answer questions many have. But I would love to see higher res's included. Of course 1080p is mainstream and important, but plenty of gamers either have or are considering moving up since monitors in general have come down so much in price, the step to *1200 is either something many are doing or may well do in the near future.

I have personally been gaming at quite high resolutions for years (multi-screen), but for over 6 years I've been primarily gaming at 2560*1600 and it just baffles me that over half a decade on (many lifetimes in the tech world), that such res's are only on specialist sites.

I even see another review posted here recently where you're benching hexa-cores with GPUs that have more VRAM than an entire rig had just a few years ago and again sticking at 1080p. You don't review a V12 with HP creeping near 4 digits strictly driving around an estate and heavily pedestrianised areas (!), and equally you shouldn't be reviewing monstrous machines with cores, cache, bandwidth, and RAM to burn on essentially a tablet resolution. (Actually, soon to be lower than "typical" tablet resolution!)

Very true! We're trying to arrange at least one 2560 x 1600 Display. If there is a chance we also try to get three 1920 x 1080, 120 HZ 3D Displays.

On the other side: the higher the tested resolutions are the more the GPU is going to limit and the less the influence of the CPU will be. So, to show at least some CPU limitation you need to test a resolution that is not too high. Which is one reason why I chose 1920 x 1080. The other reason is that - like you also wrote - 1080P gaming has become mainstream meanwhile. So a lot of gamers wonder wether a certain CPU makes a difference or not at the resolution they're actually playing their games.