Hmmm while these preliminary results look somewhat promising for the Phenom II, the comments on the HardOCP front page seem to hint that there isn't much to get excited about. I wonder what is up with that? Maybe they have had time to run some more extensive benchmarks and they are not impressed with the results?
I was a bit surprised when I saw that message as well. From the posts that have made their way onto the net, it looks like Deneb will be ballpark the same performance per clock as core2's, and they very clearly clock better than Phenom's, hitting 6.3Ghz in Chicago (LN2) and breaking 4Ghz in a lot of the leaked results. My only guess is that he was stating that Phenom II will not be bringing anything noteworthy or new to the table, simply catching AMD back up to where Intel was for some time.
That said I honestly don't think Intel has one-uped themselves even, at least for a desktop part. Their i7 parts are nice but they don't really bring anything new to the table either other than a next gen performance increase.