Why you have to download chipset drivers for mobo

It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Windows 10 - Any need to install motherboard chipset drivers? Thread starter John Start date Jun 30, John [H]ard Gawd. Joined Mar 8, Messages 1, Hi all, Just finished clean installing Windows 10 for the first time.

I'm curious as to whether it's recommended to install chipset drivers for the motherboard like in the good old days or just stick with whatever Windows 10 may have used on it's own during installation. Any thoughts are appreciated. Sirste n00b. Joined Jun 10, Messages To further his question what about all drivers that come with the cd or let's be real who has a cd drive but download drivers from motherboard website. Everything on my computer is detected except for corsair cooler cpu block and the only extra driver I installed was gpu.

Just upgraded gpu still nvidia same driver should I reinstall it for the sake of new upgrade or a driver is a driver?! Thx and hope our questions help others. Deleted member Guest. One would say that the drivers provided to Windows Update and those included in the Windows 10 distribution files on the ISO or whatever are "more stable" overall and designed to make sure the hardware functions as expected but they are most definitely not designed for performance.

So it's a safe bet to say the distribution and Windows Update versions will keep your machine running reliably and stable for sure. But if you must have to get some additional functionality not provided with the distribution or Windows Update drivers then as long as the driver version is newer I'd say it can't hurt to install whatever the actual manufacturer of the given hardware provides. The only exception might be for laptops which sometimes to actually have drivers tailored for that specific hardware.

If I use the Dell supplied driver QuickSync offloads all the encoding to the GPU when I select that encoder but with the Intel provided driver which is a newer version the QuickSync functionality doesn't work properly - it pushes the encoding to the CPU and it takes a little longer. Recommendation: unless you have an actual requirement for something the manufacturer's updated driver provides could be a Control Panel thing as noted, or just a better performing driver for a GPU since again the Windows Update drivers are meant for stability and not performance I'd say use the distribution drivers and let Windows Update handle updating them whenever a new one becomes available.

Tiberian said:. Click to expand There are 2 major ways to update motherboard drivers. You can update chipset drivers automatically in Device Manager or download and install it manually from its official website.

The first and simplest method to update chipset drivers is to use the Device Manager. Step 1. Right-click the Start menu and select Device Manager from the context menu. Step 2. In the Device Manager window, expand the System devices categories and right-click the chipset driver that you want to update, then select the Update driver option from the context menu. Step 3. Then there are 2 options to update chipset drivers. Here you can select the Search automatically for updated driver software option, which can help you install the updated chipset drivers automatically.

Step 4. Windows will search for the updated chipset drivers automatically, and then you can follow the on-screen prompts to install the drivers on your computer.

Alternatively, you can update chipset drivers on Windows 10 manually. Please keep reading the following content. You can download the motherboard drivers from its official website and install it on your computer manually. For that:. Click on the About button from the left pane, and then scroll down the right sidebar to the Device specifications section where you should find the system type is b4-bit or bit.

Navigate to the official website of your motherboard manufacturer. Here we take the Intel chipset drivers for example. Click here to visit its official website.