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What are the exact benefits to downloading AMD chipset drivers?

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So from what little ive heard is that downloading the chipset drivers will add the ryzen optimized power plans to windows. Being balanced and high performance. Aside from those, what else exactly are the benefits to downloading them?

 

With the power plans, some have said that they dont really matter anymore and that its better to use the windows plans. also on the topic of power plans, some have said that using balanced actually is better than using performance. and for some reason the ryzen high performance plan disappeared for me.

 

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You need it to even run the OS properly. Many examples of systems with outdated chipset drivers causing the system to crash randomly.

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

You need it to even run the OS properly. Many examples of systems with outdated chipset drivers causing the system to crash randomly.

really? cuz me with a 1600 on b350 has been fine for over a year. idk how relevant this is but ive DDUed my pc for a gpu upgrade and added an ssd. (just adding that if it is somehow relevant)

2 of my friends i helped them with building both have 3600s on b550 and iirc they both dont have chipset drivers downloaded too and they both seem to be fine. only notable problem ive noticed from them is that one of them says that their refresh rate seems to always change, but i kinda doubt that its related to that. then again im no expert so i could be wrong.

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Better power management first of all. I can't say I know all the improvements they have done since I haven't read any changelogs but.... here is a random one I guess..

 

AMD Ryzen™ Chipset Driver Release Notes (2.04.04.111) Highlights

 

Release Highlights

Removed deprecated device IDs from the IOV driver

Removed deprecated device IDs from the USB 3.0 driver

General system stability improvements

 

Fixed Issues

Installer may hang during installation progress

Installer may abort with “Error 1720” code

Installation will not install on a non C:\ location

Resolved screen rotation bug with select AMD mobile processors

Rare system halt on 7th Gen AMD A-Series APUs

 

Also motherboard manufacturers may put their own tweaks inside the chipset driver/software. Well... AM4 has been out for a good while now. I doubt there will be much critical to fix in the future. As suggested by this, doesn't seem critical to me.

 

Known Issues

  • Manual system restart required on Non-English OS after installation is completed.
  • Windows Installer pop-up message may appear during install.
  • Uninstallation log may not be generated in silent mode.
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37 minutes ago, Sinsanatis said:

really? cuz me with a 1600 on b350 has been fine for over a year. idk how relevant this is but ive DDUed my pc for a gpu upgrade and added an ssd. (just adding that if it is somehow relevant)

2 of my friends i helped them with building both have 3600s on b550 and iirc they both dont have chipset drivers downloaded too and they both seem to be fine. only notable problem ive noticed from them is that one of them says that their refresh rate seems to always change, but i kinda doubt that its related to that. then again im no expert so i could be wrong.

You can look into BIOS download pages for older motherboards, they will urge you to use chipset drivers after a certain patch for some BIOS updates. Same for the OS, when OS updates itself it can have problems until you update the chipset driver.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Windows automatically install the basic chipset drivers after every OS installation for it to work.

Manual installation ensures you getting the latest drivers.

Old drivers may work, but bugs may happens, in which you may or may not notice.

Windows do update the drivers, but not as frequent as the native one, probably only once a year.

 

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3 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

Better power management first of all. I can't say I know all the improvements they have done since I haven't read any changelogs but.... here is a random one I guess..

 

AMD Ryzen™ Chipset Driver Release Notes (2.04.04.111) Highlights

 

Release Highlights

Removed deprecated device IDs from the IOV driver

Removed deprecated device IDs from the USB 3.0 driver

General system stability improvements

 

Fixed Issues

Installer may hang during installation progress

Installer may abort with “Error 1720” code

Installation will not install on a non C:\ location

Resolved screen rotation bug with select AMD mobile processors

Rare system halt on 7th Gen AMD A-Series APUs

 

Also motherboard manufacturers may put their own tweaks inside the chipset driver/software. Well... AM4 has been out for a good while now. I doubt there will be much critical to fix in the future. As suggested by this, doesn't seem critical to me.

 

Known Issues

  • Manual system restart required on Non-English OS after installation is completed.
  • Windows Installer pop-up message may appear during install.
  • Uninstallation log may not be generated in silent mode.

Ah cool so its almost just like gpu drivers with random fixes and improvements

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3 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

Windows automatically install the basic chipset drivers after every OS installation for it to work.

Manual installation ensures you getting the latest drivers.

Old drivers may work, but bugs may happens, in which you may or may not notice.

Windows do update the drivers, but not as frequent as the native one, probably only once a year.

 

Ah that makes sense. What about if u upgrade? Is it kinda like gpu drivers where u should ddu it? Or like if u dl, say b550, would it just overwrite or take priority or something, over b350

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2 hours ago, Sinsanatis said:

Ah cool so its almost just like gpu drivers with random fixes and improvements

Pretty much yeah. Of course one can look at the changelog before deciding to update but at that stage you may as well just update.

 

What I recommend people is to first install chipset drivers from the motherboard page because some as I said add their own motherboard specific things to them and then update from AMD website. To show you what I mean by Asus for instance adding to the driver software.

 

For my motherboard Asus have this chipset driver, notice the size.

Versjon 19.10.16
2019/07/05 376.55 MBytes
 
AMD have this, much smaller size, see?
AMD Chipset Drivers
Revision Number
2.10.13.408
File Size
50 MB
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On 12/1/2020 at 2:36 AM, aDoomGuy said:

Pretty much yeah. Of course one can look at the changelog before deciding to update but at that stage you may as well just update.

 

What I recommend people is to first install chipset drivers from the motherboard page because some as I said add their own motherboard specific things to them and then update from AMD website. To show you what I mean by Asus for instance adding to the driver software.

 

For my motherboard Asus have this chipset driver, notice the size.

Versjon 19.10.16
2019/07/05 376.55 MBytes
 
AMD have this, much smaller size, see?
AMD Chipset Drivers
Revision Number
2.10.13.408
File Size
50 MB

what about for asrock ab350 pro4? from the list of downloads, i cant tell which one is the chipset drivers

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19 minutes ago, Sinsanatis said:

what about for asrock ab350 pro4? from the list of downloads, i cant tell which one is the chipset drivers

I can see what you mean it may and probably is included in the AMD all in 1 with VGA driver ver:19.10.16_19H1_WHQL but it may also be that they don't have chipset drivers in which case you can go to AMD website but try the AMD all in 1 one and don't install the VGA driver. It will probably say what is included if you don't see chipset driver there or anything useful at all just cancel the installation and head to amd.com for your drivers.

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16 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

I can see what you mean it may and probably is included in the AMD all in 1 with VGA driver ver:19.10.16_19H1_WHQL but it may also be that they don't have chipset drivers in which case you can go to AMD website but try the AMD all in 1 one and don't install the VGA driver. It will probably say what is included if you don't see chipset driver there or anything useful at all just cancel the installation and head to amd.com for your drivers.

yeah i downloaded the one from amd a few days ago, i was just wondering if i overlooked a specific one for my motherboard. thanks!

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