Benches I requested above please mainly POV-Ray 3.7 BETA(multi-cpu)/Cinebench10 (single-multi)/wPrime 32M/Superpi 1M/32M/Sandra Memory Bandwidth if you may and better are the first 3. Enough to show differences. I already know what you're mentioning because I said similar things when I thought NB MHz were high and it all proved incorrect once you learn and understand what is happening. Simple POV-Ray and Cinebench 10 runs with the settings I gave (easy settings for your CPU) will show your CPU/RAM/NB speeds quite clearly.

And yeah, I did this 3 months ago. A comparison of approx. 1980MHz NB Vs 2860MHz NB at the same CPU/RAM speeds with the 9500. So I'm looking forward to what you'll present as I can re-run those exact settings with the BE pretty easily.

Also, I don't think you should take one software speed reading over the other when you don't have official word on such matters and when you have no way to verify any unless you bench a known setting in a known software which scales with CPU/NB/RAM and someone can cross-check the actual speeds by running the same settings.