I think you should go for the Plextor 12/10/32. Even when I'm just burning at 8x or 12x, in my Pentium 225 MMX, sometimes Burn-Proof kicks in. With a Pentium II 350, if you did anything at the same time you're burning, Burn-Proof would also kick in. So if you buy a 8x recorder without Burn-Proof, you won't be able to do anything when you are burning, and you may even then get coasters.