It's very fast and very upgradable. My only complaint is that Windows 7 is an unsupported OS, and unlike many others with Kaby Lake/ recent gen. motherboards, chipset drivers and drivers for key components are also not available for this board.I've been trying Fedora for a month and while it occasionally halts / requires restarts when using hardware acceleration (Opera), it's very linux friendly all around.The Intel Quick Sync Video is outstanding.