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Hunlight
By Hunlight
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Hello,

 

I always wondered why in device manager, for example lets take processor. Mine ryzen 3600 driver date says 2009 year. Always wondered why dates never corresponded truth or even processor creation dates 😄 Im missing something? please enlighten me?

And how do I make sure drivers are up to date then if their date is off all the time.

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CPUs don't have drivers, chipset driver handles them, among other things. Most of the drivers you see with Device manager are PnP drivers coded into OS itself. The date showing 2009 corresponds to Windows 7 launch (or last betas etc.) which was the OS Microsoft made almost from scratch after XP still being bit on DOS connected and Vista being huge failure. All in all, those drivers offer basic compatibility with hardware and there's no real reason to update them as mobo chipset driver will add required compatibility and features of anything newer.

 

(some info here is assumption and might be incorrect)

Edited by LogicalDrm

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