Where to reliably find the latest Intel chipset drivers these days?

[Bogdanov89]

From my experience in the previous decade+ the most reliably updated place to get latest intel chipset drivers (inf utility or w/e) for your generation/model was at Intel official website.

 

Particularly because the various msi/asus/gigabyte... motherboard and various laptop manufacturers did not regularly & reliably update their own website driver support pages with the newest intel chipset drivers, especially for the "not latest" models.

Also because windows update usually has pretty old drivers to offer.

 

However for quite a few years now it seems to me that Intel has, perhaps intentionally, removed/hidden their chipset driver software updates from their websites?

Can anyone please enlighten me on this topic?

[Morris_lee_9116]

have you tried Intel's website?

[Bogdanov89]

11 minutes ago, Morris_lee_9116 said:

have you tried Intel's website?

 

Yes, if their "This download is valid for the product(s) listed below." list is to be trusted then the latest chipset they support is akin to a Z370 which came from 2017.

 

That is why i am asking, because i can find no official clearly labeled chipset drivers for more modern chipsets on Intels website.

[leclod]

I hope this isn't obvious, but have you tried this :

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

Edited December 28, 2023 by leclod

[Bogdanov89]

22 minutes ago, leclod said:

I hope this isn't obvious, but have you tried this :

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

Thanks for replying, i did try that utility and it is pretty good.

Though this thread is more about the general issue of Intel chipset drivers simply not being available/shown on their website for anything past year 2017.

 

To elaborate, these are some of the latest chipsets that are shown by intel to be supported by their latest chipset software: Z370, Q370, B360 etc (year 2017).

There is nothing newer listed in the "this download is valid for the products listed below" section for the latest intel chipset drivers.

[Kilrah]

From what I can see it's simply that they're not needed anymore. The chipset itself doesn't do much more than connect components together, it's these components that will need drivers, and most are standard and use generic drivers.