I bought this to replace a $50 Ikea desk that was bending in the center. I have a fairly heavy desktop computer on my desk with 3 or 4 monitors depending on how I have it set up. The Ikea desk appeared to have a wooden top, but it was actually hollow and filled with particle board. This desk is over double the price, but you easily get your money's worth from it. The top is an actual slab of wood, and is reinforced with a metal frame around the outer edge. It is much much heavier than my old desk (and for good reason), but I still found it fairly easy to assemble. The frame is fairly thick, and there's not much of a lip where the wooden top extends past it. My Vivo monitor stands were able to clamp around the metal frame without any trouble. However, the clamps for both my mic stand and racing wheel could not open far enough to get around the metal frame, and the lip of the wooden top does top extend far enough to hold them. This wasn't a huge issue for me as my mic does not need that stand and the separate stand I had to buy for the racing wheel made it better to use anyway, but it's definitely worth considering if you need anything clamped around the desk. I had a very hard time finding a simple, sturdy desk like this that can hold a lot of weight, and I was very happy with this one