Intel driver confusion.

[Complexed]

This is my first spin with a Intel build. Having a hard time finding the chipset drivers for a Rampage II extreme ASUS board. Are these drivers necessary like with their AMD counterparts? I can find the drivers under the Windows 7 selection but when I try to search for them in 8.1 (using the technical preview) I cannot find any.

[EcoBoost]

This is my first spin with a Intel build. Having a hard time finding the chipset drivers for a Rampage II extreme ASUS board. Are these drivers necessary like with their AMD counterparts? I can find the drivers under the Windows 7 selection but when I try to search for them in 8.1 (using the technical preview) I cannot find any.

afaik Windows 8.1/10 comes with many of these chipset drivers out of the box. You can use the Win7 drivers though if you want to be fully sure, it won't update the drivers that it doesn't need to. 

[Giganizer300PRO]

You can download all the drivers for the motherboard here: http://www.asus.com/ROG_ROG/RAMPAGE_II_EXTREME/HelpDesk_Download/

[EcoBoost]

You can download all the drivers for the motherboard here: http://www.asus.com/ROG_ROG/RAMPAGE_II_EXTREME/HelpDesk_Download/

OP already said that he looked there. If you try selecting Windows 8.1 in the drop down menu on that page, notice how there's pretty much nothing. Whereas you select Windows 7 and there's tons of downloads

[Complexed]

afaik Windows 8.1/10 comes with many of these chipset drivers out of the box. You can use the Win7 drivers though if you want to be fully sure, it won't update the drivers that it doesn't need to. 

I was leaning towards this but I wasnt sure. Getting ready to start stress testing to see what I can clock this old machine to. Cant figure out why my ram is sitting at 550mhz though... I gotta tinker a bit more.

[Omon_Ra]

If you get your ethernet/wifi drivers installed, Windows should auto install any other drivers you would need. Double check Device Manager for any yellow exclamation marks, indicating missing or malfunctioning drivers.

[Ex0Thermic]

you can also try the Intel Driver Utility 
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect

or try downloading the intel chipset installation software 
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProdId=816

[Giganizer300PRO]

OP already said that he looked there. If you try selecting Windows 8.1 in the drop down menu on that page, notice how there's pretty much nothing. Whereas you select Windows 7 and there's tons of downloads

Oh my bad. The motherboard is too old and I guess they don't update all drivers...