This review was interesting and hints at the Phenom II's performance levels, but I am anxiously awaiting to see if reviews from The Tech Report and Anandtech make things any clearer or not.

I also thought the i7 results were bizarre and whilst I want to see what happens when The Tech Report and Anandtech compare i7 to PhII, it does support my theory that the i7 is an unbalanced CPU at this stage, reminiscent of the first generation Pentiums for mine.