Fresh PC Drivers?

[Techemitor]

I'm building a PC soon, and people recommend that you throw away the driver discs and install directly from the manufactures website. But what components of my PC actually require drivers, as in motherboard, GPU ect.

Also are these just found on the help and support sections of the manufactures websites? Cheers

[007agentHP]

gpu mostly

cpu if you wish

motherboard if you want

network drivers

[NetworkNooBie]

Not always the best drivers are the most recent, there tends to be bugs after they're first released, NOT ALWAYS, but sometimes. But I would install the ones from the website and if it doesn't run properly perhaps run the disc. The drivers are found under the support / drivers section of the manufacturers website.

[GoodBytes]

I'm building a PC soon, and people recommend that you throw away the driver discs and install directly from the manufactures website. But what components of my PC actually require drivers, as in motherboard, GPU ect.

Also are these just found on the help and support sections of the manufactures websites? Cheers

ok don't literally through away your motherboard driver disk. It might come in handy if, you have only 1 system and it is the one you are building and it doesn't have network drivers, or you need the SATA controller drivers in Windows setup, and stuff like that. And yes, while slim that this happens (extremely rare), you may face a bug with newer drivers, so having older drivers is nice, while the manufacture fixes the issue . So it is handy. Oh and sometimes, the motherboard manufacture includes the BIOS/UEFI of your system that your motherboard has, which might be useful.

What is meant by "throwing the motherboard driver disk", is really like what NetworkNooBie is saying. That it's essentially best to get the latest drivers as the motherboard drivers disk rarely end up having the latest drivers, unless the board was just released and you got it "day 1", and even then.

Keep the disk, get the latest drivers from the manufacture website.