are you a intel fanboi go visit toms hardware where in quite a few games the phenom 965BE outperforms the core i7 at 3.8GHZ
only noticable games at present where you will see major differences are Left for dead 2,far cry 2,gta,COD MW2
woot a few games where it might beat it by 2fps.
games are the only thing amd do well at, goto the benchmarks for everything else and see how much amd gets beaten by.
game devs are starting to utilise other things on cpus cores that arent beeing used by the game engine such as physics , sound effects etc then you will see a clear seeing as intel do number crunching much better than amd.
he says he isnt planning to overclock anyway so how fast an overclocked 965be is doesnt count.