Motherboard Drivers

[namarino]

Hey guys. I have an Asus M5A97 R2.0 motherboard. In terms of drivers and utility programs, which ones do I need? The site is divided up into sections like BIOS, Utilities, Chipset, LAN and things of that nature. In each section though, there are like 10 things. The one on the top is the most recent update, but the earlier versions include some things that the newer versions don't. So what do I have to download? Thanks for your help!

[FoxHound]

When I do my Driver installs for a new motherboard I always check to see what devices don't yet have drivers in device manager. Normally things like chipsets, USB 3.0, soundcards, Lan ports do not have drivers by default in windows. If your BIOS is working fine I do not recommend you flash it, as for the versions always get the latest version sometimes they remove features due to incompatibility or for other reasons. As for utilities and programs, normally these are not needed and are just software for things windows will do for you, other times it will allow you to over clock from windows or things like that so if there is a feature that you want that the software provides install it otherwise I would avoid it.

[namarino]

When I do my Driver installs for a new motherboard I always check to see what devices don't yet have drivers in device manager. Normally things like chipsets, USB 3.0, soundcards, Lan ports do not have drivers by default in windows. If your BIOS is working fine I do not recommend you flash it, as for the versions always get the latest version sometimes they remove features due to incompatibility or for other reasons. As for utilities and programs, normally these are not needed and are just software for things windows will do for you, other times it will allow you to over clock from windows or things like that so if there is a feature that you want that the software provides install it otherwise I would avoid it.

Got it! Thanks a lot! One more question. You mentioned that there is a way to overclock from your desktop. I've seen that on Linus' channel before. How do you get that? Or is that specific to each motherboard?

[FoxHound]

 

How do you get that? Or is that specific to each motherboard?

Under the utilities for your motherboard the Version  2.04.01 software package (one at the very top) includes TurboV EVO V1.01.53 which allows you to over clock from the utility in wondows (If you dont want the other utilities that come with it you may be able to do a custom install or just remove them after the fact). As for how good it is I could not tell you.