I feel like it was a good deal for me in what I was looking for. I went with 32G RAM because the upgrades I could find 3rd party would have saved me nothing. I'm using this machine as a media server and was letting some things run in the background overnight which spun out of control and pushed the load average to over 50 for a sustained period. I suppose that was my burn in test. Once I reset things and got it back to normal, all seems to be running well and smooth.. I didn't even run a memtest, but trust that my accidental load test gave me what I needed. I am pleased.