Intel supports guerilla benchmarketing
 

While one may criticize the fact that Intel did that in the first place, the setups really looked comparable judging after what Hexus and Anand reported. Mind you that Intel themselves gives out excellent guides to reviewers on how to configure a system and in its own benchmarks coming with review kits always provides exact data on how a competing PC was set up. You may not even get heavy on the hardware sites for taking the chance – it´s their business to do so, and how much more certain about a mature platform can you be, if the chipmaker itself set it up? And for AMD, a setup it is.