I would recommend this board to all those who are looking for a universal board with useful CPU Leitstung and fast LAN connections. For use as a firewall (IPCop / IPFire) this board is top. Prima suitable for craft projects due to the serial ports. 4x USB 3.0 is certainly no standard at ITX boards. However, one should keep their hands off, if you decide to install a virtualization software. At least VMWare ESXi runs in any of my tested version on this board. As soon as you attempt to install a kernel crash comes. As it is with other hypervisors, I do not know. Attention also in terms of expandability: The board has only one PCI slot (not PCI-e!)