I did a search of the forums but did not find what I was looking for, if this has been posted before give me some links, if not I would appreciate some info. Best Buy has the TDK 16x on sale for 249.99, and the 12x for 199.99 after mail in rebate. I have heard that the extra 4x only translates into like a 90 second faster burn. I could live with the slower cheaper drive if it only means 90 seconds. But in my experience with a 12x on a 350mhz, it took like 18 minutes or something(I don't remember exactly) to burn a whole CD. When it was supposed to burn in like 10 minutes, although I'm sure the burnproof prolly kicked in and slowed it down a little. I am now on a duron 650, which i hope to ugrade to a Tbird 1gig+ soon, so I shouldn't have much of a big problem. So which is better for the money?