DRIVERSSS!

[RayRay89]

So this is a completely noon question but I got a new processor mobo and ram for xmas, I need to make sure that get the most up to date drivers, what is the best way to this?

[Altecice]

Go on the website and download the latest for the model you have.

[Killervolt]

Download from the official website (not from included disk)

[Syntaxvgm]

^ Ditto, and RAM doesn't need drivers. 

[xDanielxOossiex]

Do CPUs need drivers?

[Naeaes]

The motherboard manufacturer's website. And only that. Even if Windows finds drives form update, download and install the ones on the manufacturer's website.

[techguru]

So this is a completely noon question but I got a new processor mobo and ram for xmas, I need to make sure that get the most up to date drivers, what is the best way to this?

if you know what drivers to get

go to station drivers for the newest ones

[Syntaxvgm]

Do CPUs need drivers?

guess I neglected that. No, but chipsets do, kinda 

[Naeaes]

Do CPUs need drivers?

Technically yes. Without a driver to sit between the hardware and the software, the two can't communicate or even recognize each other. Without a driver the OS won't know if it was a mouse or a sausage you just plugged in and so on. But the CPU is such a core part of computers that what we'd call the driver for it is build-in in all operating systems. The thing performing the tasks of a traditional driver for the CPU is called the instruction set. This is such a crucial thing of modern computing that without it, there cannot be an operating system or any other sort of user-interface. Windows only works with Intel x86 and x86-64 instruction sets so it's easy enough to have it fully built-in. With cross-platform operating systems becoming more and more interest-raising and mobile processors built for other instruction sets getting more and more powerful not to mention the fact that x86 is really old and clunky, who knows. Maybe in the future the instruction set will also be something we download and install ourselves. But right now, it isn't.

 

What I'm trying to say is, yes, you do need a driver for the CPU too but that's already in there. There often are thing built into the CPU though, that need their own drivers. Like USB, GPU, Intel IME and so on. Download and install everything from the motherboard manufacturer's website and after installing everything, uninstall all the unnecessary programs that came with it.

 

Edit: I just realized, you're not OP. Sorry for being so thorough.

[Syntaxvgm]

Technically yes. Without a driver to sit between the hardware and the software, the two can't communicate or even recognize each other. Without a driver the OS won't know if it was a mouse or a sausage you just plugged in and so on. But the CPU is such a core part of computers that what we'd call the driver for it is build-in in all operating systems. The thing performing the tasks of a traditional driver for the CPU is called the instruction set. This is such a crucial thing of modern computing that without it, there cannot be an operating system or any other sort of user-interface. Windows only works with Intel x86 and x86-64 instruction sets so it's easy enough to have it fully built-in. With cross-platform operating systems becoming more and more interest-raising and mobile processors built for other instruction sets getting more and more powerful not to mention the fact that x86 is really old and clunky, who knows. Maybe in the future the instruction set will also be something we download and install ourselves. But right now, it isn't.

 

What I'm trying to say is, yes, you do need a driver for the CPU too but that's already in there. There often are thing built into the CPU though, that need their own drivers. Like USB, GPU, Intel IME and so on. Download and install everything from the motherboard manufacturer's website and after installing everything, uninstall all the unnecessary programs that came with it.

 

Edit: I just realized, you're not OP. Sorry for being so thorough.

yah basically OP everything needs a driver but you don't have to worry about 90% of it. 

[Opask]

Technically yes. Without a driver to sit between the hardware and the software, the two can't communicate or even recognize each other. Without a driver the OS won't know if it was a mouse or a sausage you just plugged in and so on. But the CPU is such a core part of computers that what we'd call the driver for it is build-in in all operating systems. The thing performing the tasks of a traditional driver for the CPU is called the instruction set. This is such a crucial thing of modern computing that without it, there cannot be an operating system or any other sort of user-interface. Windows only works with Intel x86 and x86-64 instruction sets so it's easy enough to have it fully built-in. With cross-platform operating systems becoming more and more interest-raising and mobile processors built for other instruction sets getting more and more powerful not to mention the fact that x86 is really old and clunky, who knows. Maybe in the future the instruction set will also be something we download and install ourselves. But right now, it isn't.

 

What I'm trying to say is, yes, you do need a driver for the CPU too but that's already in there. There often are thing built into the CPU though, that need their own drivers. Like USB, GPU, Intel IME and so on. Download and install everything from the motherboard manufacturer's website and after installing everything, uninstall all the unnecessary programs that came with it.

 

Edit: I just realized, you're not OP. Sorry for being so thorough.

So a kernel?

It just converts whatever you are doing into binary which is either an on(1) or off(0) electrical signal. Which the CPU understands.

 

And you can download an compile the linux kernel. So I mean yes you can do it yourself. Windows does it automatically and you aren't allowed to change it but on a linux based OS that is perfectly fine.

[Naeaes]

So a kernel?

It just converts whatever you are doing into binary which is either an on(1) or off(0) electrical signal. Which the CPU understands.

 

And you can download an compile the linux kernel. So I mean yes you can do it yourself. Windows does it automatically and you aren't allowed to change it but on a linux based OS that is perfectly fine.

Kernel would actually be a better analogy for a CPU driver. To put it as simply as I can, kernel is that part of the OS that does the conversion from program code to machine code according to how the instruction set would have it done. Kernel being the thing that does it and instruction set the rules how it's done.

[RayRay89]

So If I type devmgmt into the search and then click on the device that has a driver out of date and hit up and downloads is that not right?