Coolaler isn't trusted by XS?
From what I recall, the early Kentsfield benchmarks found on that forum were quite accurate, and so were the Core 2 overclocks. Faking a benchmark like this would be really stupid, seeing how easy it would be to prove the forgery once the CPU's went retail.
The results are disappointing taking Intel's current and future (45nm) offerings into consideration, but they are not unreasonable. They show a few percentages performance increase over the K8.
There will probably be benchmarks where the K10 scores like the K8, and there will probably be benchmarks where the performance delta is bigger than in Cinebench (say circa 20-30%.
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