(trustable) Phenom Gaming Benches?

[plonk420]

my AMD zealot friend (well, i guess Intel's questionable conduct with OEMs is a bit of a good reason to hate them) says that Anandtech's Phenom gaming benches were weighted against AMD and gave Intel an advantage. i've read a FEW but not a crapton of reviews, but i've only seen Phenoms being beaten by Intel (except with x264 encoding, which i echo all over the internets*). are there any good (multiple, sane (normal as well as crazy), TRUSTABLE reviews that show Phenoms in gaming benches... more "accurately"?



*the only reason i stayed with AMD for this gen is because of i game less these days, and the only thing i do a LOT of where i care for performance is video encoding. and AMD "kept up" if not bettered Intel in a price-to-performance comparison with Phenom. i fear for AMD's response to i7, however.

[NeoGen]

I haven't been in the loop about the Phenoms and their Intel counterparts, but for pure gaming my focus would fall much more on the gpu and not so much on the processor. The bus speeds, memory speeds, and latency values also play a big role on the number of frames per second. Heck, even a good dedicated sound card can lift some weight off the cpu.
Then there's the drivers for the gpu, that with each new version the performance values always change.
And games themselves are also developed with certain platforms in mind. I remember NVidia's "The way it's meant to be played" logo on the start of many games. That meant that the software house that developed it got some incentive (technical, and maybe something more) from NVidia.
So I guess it's complicated to define that Phenoms are worse or better for games, because there's too many variables, and if you look only at the cpu's and scramble the other variables you'll probably get weird results like Phenoms beating Intels and vice versa on the same games because of subtle changes in the remaining hardware.