I had to look it up, after reading the page. Gulftown is Westmere EP. I've done some work with a 2x Westmere before, pretty cool chip. We had hyperthreading turned off though.

I have a Nehalem, and it's pretty cool. But even it costs a lot more for the CPU alone than frosty wants to spend on a system. And I don't blame him. Not everyone is as much of a computer hog as I.