Windows 10 drivers

[MarcusHuddinge]

I've now spent the last 12+ hours rebuilding my computer from scratch (upgraded mobo, cpu, ram, cooler) and trying to get it to work. After rebuilding the computer i tried booting into my old Windows 10 install cause i really didn't want to reinstall Windows, but it was extremely broken and it kept giving me probably at least 20 different blue screen error codes. I spent many hours trying to first getting it to work, and then trying to take pictures of different programs settings in between blue screens before reinstalling Windows. I Googled several of the blue screen errors and some of them seemed possibly memory related so i thought maybe Windows had some issue with my new ram so i put in my old ram instead and then Windows was stable again so i could quickly finish going through programs and taking pictures of settings. Then i put my new ram back in and started reinstalling Windows, but already during the installation process Windows was beginning to crap itself and blue screened again. So i thought wth is the issue, my ram is on the Memory Support List. And then i Googled the blue screen error i got while reinstalling Windows and i saw someone mentioning updating BIOS and i realized maybe my ram just isn't supported by this older BIOS. So i updated BIOS and tried installing Windows again and sure enough now everything was working properly. So now i've probably reinstalled Windows in vain when all i had to do was update BIOS.
Which leads to right now... Windows is installed and i need to install drivers. I've kept the computer offline cause i remember Windows thinks it knows best and especially likes installing some random Nvidia driver. I've already manually downloaded the latest Nvidia driver and installed it but i don't know which motherboard drivers to install

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-D-DDR4-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver
Driver:
Audio: "Realtek HD Audio Driver for DCH" or "Realtek HD Audio Driver" or both? And what is the difference?
Chipset: "Intel Serial I/O driver", "Intel Management Engine Firmware", "Intel INF installation", "Intel HID Event Filter". Do i get them all?
LAN: "Realtek LAN Driver". I assume i just install this even though ethernet probably already works just fine?
SATA RAID/AHCI: "Intel SATA Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode)". I don't know what AHCI is but i'm not gonna use RAID, do i need this? "Intel Rapid Storage Technology", seems to improve SATA performance so i guess i'll get this one.
VGA: "Intel Graphic Driver", do i need this if i use a dGPU? I guess the iGPU can still help with hardware video decoding and such?

BIOS
Obviously i already updated to the newest BIOS to fix my previous ram issue

Utility
"GIGABYTE Control Center", do i really need this after i've manually installed drivers? I feel like it's just gonna be one of those annoying programs that keeps bothering you
"ITE firmware update tool", What is this? Seems to be all about RGB which i don't care for whatsoever. I have a solid side panel and if there is any RGB i want it turned off. Should i just skip this one?
"Realtek Gaming LAN bandwidth Control Utility", Seems like some gimmicky gamer-software, probably another skip?

[m9x3mos]

6 minutes ago, MarcusHuddinge said:

I've now spent the last 12+ hours rebuilding my computer from scratch (upgraded mobo, cpu, ram, cooler) and trying to get it to work. After rebuilding the computer i tried booting into my old Windows 10 install cause i really didn't want to reinstall Windows, but it was extremely broken and it kept giving me probably at least 20 different blue screen error codes. I spent many hours trying to first getting it to work, and then trying to take pictures of different programs settings in between blue screens before reinstalling Windows. I Googled several of the blue screen errors and some of them seemed possibly memory related so i thought maybe Windows had some issue with my new ram so i put in my old ram instead and then Windows was stable again so i could quickly finish going through programs and taking pictures of settings. Then i put my new ram back in and started reinstalling Windows, but already during the installation process Windows was beginning to crap itself and blue screened again. So i thought wth is the issue, my ram is on the Memory Support List. And then i Googled the blue screen error i got while reinstalling Windows and i saw someone mentioning updating BIOS and i realized maybe my ram just isn't supported by this older BIOS. So i updated BIOS and tried installing Windows again and sure enough now everything was working properly. So now i've probably reinstalled Windows in vain when all i had to do was update BIOS.
Which leads to right now... Windows is installed and i need to install drivers. I've kept the computer offline cause i remember Windows thinks it knows best and especially likes installing some random Nvidia driver. I've already manually downloaded the latest Nvidia driver and installed it but i don't know which motherboard drivers to install

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-D-DDR4-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver
Driver:
Audio: "Realtek HD Audio Driver for DCH" or "Realtek HD Audio Driver" or both? And what is the difference?
Chipset: "Intel Serial I/O driver", "Intel Management Engine Firmware", "Intel INF installation", "Intel HID Event Filter". Do i get them all?
LAN: "Realtek LAN Driver". I assume i just install this even though ethernet probably already works just fine?
SATA RAID/AHCI: "Intel SATA Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode)". I don't know what AHCI is but i'm not gonna use RAID, do i need this? "Intel Rapid Storage Technology", seems to improve SATA performance so i guess i'll get this one.
VGA: "Intel Graphic Driver", do i need this if i use a dGPU? I guess the iGPU can still help with hardware video decoding and such?

BIOS
Obviously i already updated to the newest BIOS to fix my previous ram issue

Utility
"GIGABYTE Control Center", do i really need this after i've manually installed drivers? I feel like it's just gonna be one of those annoying programs that keeps bothering you
"ITE firmware update tool", What is this? Seems to be all about RGB which i don't care for whatsoever. I have a solid side panel and if there is any RGB i want it turned off. Should i just skip this one?
"Realtek Gaming LAN bandwidth Control Utility", Seems like some gimmicky gamer-software, probably another skip?

You shouldn't need any of their desktop apps. 

I would suggest just looking in device manager and see if there is any devices that don't have a driver. 

You can then Google the hardware ID to find out what it is and get the correct driver from the manufacturer. 

[demonix00]

You'll only need audio, chipset, LAN and SATA drivers as the iGPU would be disabled with a dedicated card installed.