it's a good preview anyway, but given the variables, not really much point to it (tbh).

The margin of error from having poor functioning turbo mode, unknown uncore freq's etc outweigh anyones estimation of performance anyway! ( in other words, we know roughtly how it will perform given it's still nehalem, and we know dual channel DDR3 has little effect)

I agree with you Shintai, it is a mess, and a lot of reviewers unfortunatly DONT get their head around all the minor differences, and end up doing 'unfair' comparisons or incorrectly simulate other models, causing flamewards on forums :p , or accusations of reviewer brand Bias (when infact they may just have missed the detail)