Sandoppe, why don't you go ahead and still buy the HTT enabled system? I've got HTT turned off but it's still a lot faster than my old Athlon. In fact 3.06Ghz and up Intel processors will support the technology which in fact only keeps the response of the system better. Consider it as an onboard Raid-controller for people who don't use Raid. The other features like a fast memory bus and a faster cpu speed will make up for it! Because the FSB is faster, the CPU multiplier is lower which means that you can speed up the FSB more without too much overclock on the processor. I think a larger memory bandwidth is also better for programs like Poser. I have a P4 3.06 @ 3.6Ghz and my FSB runs at 240Mhz, because it's quad-pumped, it runs at 960Mhz instead of 800Mhz. In the sisoft sandra bench... everything is blown away by my current rig! I ran Correct Reference but it didn't find anything to fix :( no speed gain there...