Those looking for a cheap motherboard with the current socket (Intel 1150), it is well served by this motherboard. I have this motherboard to build a midrange uses a gaming system and this is very stable and will start in seconds. Here on my system: Intel Core i5 4570 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (gigabyte) Asrock H81m HDS 1TB Western Digital Blue 250 GB SSD from Samsung Gskill Ripjaws 8GB @ 1600 MHz Thermaltake Berlin 630 Watt Corsair Carbide 200R