I've built a nice system with 32GB of RAM and at i5-4690K processor. Maybe it would have been worth paying a bit more to get a "Deluxe" or "Pro" model, but this really does what I need. My last couple builds havebeen on mid-budget Asus boards like this one and have been less problematic than the builds I did before with pricier Gigabyte boards (maybe it's luck of the draw, but the SATA ports and stuff seem to be very iffy on the Gigabyte boards I've bought; so much so, indeed, I've ended up adding on SATA cards to do what the board Should be able to DO.