Motherboard driver help

[kirbydude47]

I have the B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC motherboard and there are some drivers im not sure what is needed and what is optional (im new to this)

 

they are the

• AM4 RAID Driver
• AMD Chipset Driver

and not sure if I need both or just one of these drivers

• Realtek HD Universal Driver
• Realtek High Definition Audio Driver

and not sure which utility to get

• APP Manager
• Command Center
• CPU-Z MSI GAMING
• Gaming Lan Manager
• Live Update 6
• MSI Gaming APP
• MSI Smart Tool
• Mystic Light 3 (Motherboard has RGB)
• Nahimic 2
• Nahimic 3
• Realtek Audio Control
• Super Charger
• X Boost

 

[Radium_Angel]

15 minutes ago, kirbydude47 said:

and not sure which utility to get

All of those are optional and not required.

The other things should be installed (especially the Chipset driver) but if your system is behaving and booting fine, skip the RAID driver, unless you use RAID

[Spakes]

19 minutes ago, kirbydude47 said:

AM4 RAID Driver

AMD Chipset Driver

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver

Mandatory.

19 minutes ago, kirbydude47 said:

Realtek HD Universal Driver

Redundant because of Realtec HDAD.

 

APP Manager - not needed unless you want to tweak a hect ton of stuff in one place instead of 3-5;

Command Center - not needed unless you want to use your Android phone to control RGB on the motherboard;

CPU-Z MSI GAMING - unless you plan on monitoring your CPU in any way possible (which can be done better with HWInfo64) AND you want MSI sking, not needed;

Gaming Lan Manager - not needed, it's QoS service, will screw up other connections like video buffering;

Live Update 6 - not needed unless you want all MSI software from this list to be updated in one click;

MSI Gaming APP - not needed, don't even install if there is software like Dragon Center or APP Manager;

MSI Smart Tool - not needed, there's a better analogue called Rufus;

Mystic Light 3 (Motherboard has RGB) - if you want to fine tune RGB, then it is required;

Nahimic 2 - not needed, you can do everything it does (except some FX that don't do any good to sound) in RAC;

Nahimic 3 - same as Nahimic 2, but 1UP!;

Realtek Audio Control - Required for Realtec HDAC, so it's needed;

Super Charger - doesn't work so do not install;

X Boost - not needed, since it doesn't do anything good.

[kirbydude47]

For the audio drivers it has two and the first one is for windows 10 rs3 or higher and the second for windows 10 rs2 or lower how do I know if my windows 10 is rs2 or lower or rs3 or higher