Hi guys.. I am upadting drivers to my componants..done my GPU and Sound card... just wondering about Motherboard drivers? is it worth downloading and updating the drivers for that? I mean will I see much difference? I am running the ASUS A8N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard and currently have the stock drivers that come on the cd with the mobo.. is it worth upadting the NVidia chipset drivers and the IDE drivers and they also have a HD audio patch..among many other updates.. What do you guys think? would you bother updating them all or a select few or non at all? Just for the record as it stands the computers running perfectly Cheers Mike
From a driver upgrade alone, your not going to notice much if any real performance gain. If the current drivers arent giving you problems I wouldnt say you need to upgrade, but personally i like to keep my drivers up to date. Look at the notes for the drivers and it should give you some ideas as to what changes were made. Now in some cases, assuming you have a realtek audio chipset, the vista drivers from ASUS were bugged for me. They gave me an annoying buzzing sound, and my audio would often skip like a lightly scratched cd. So i had to use the realtek drivers from the realtek site to fix the issue.
Realtek drivers?? You mean for the onboard sound? I use a soundblaster x-fi extreme gamer fatal1ty edition card and my sounds crisp as ya like got the 5.1 surround sound in my headphones.. Awsome card.. As for the drivers.. Might just leave them then cheers
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