After reading the BenQ forum a bit I was gonna buy the OEM version but then read all the RMA horrors people went through when they got theirs. I was waiting for a sale again to get one, this offer was exactly was what I was looking for. I would rather buy a box version over a OEM, cause it comes with a good starter package and most of the time the drive in the retail box tend to have better q/c control since it goes out to the big box stores whereas OEM tend to go to pc manufacturers and distrubuters which sells them to retail stores that built pcs. All the DVD drives I bought so far are box versions cept for a old pioneer, which was my first DVD burner. Cant break that trend now