building a pc tonight.

[alexzdro7]

this is my first build. i am building with a asus z170 , i56600k,asus strix 1070samsung ssd and hyperx fury ddr4 ram. what drivers do i need to make sure i download.

 

[Guest]

GeForce Experience

[A Silver]

Do you have an optical drive? If so use the included disks and if not go to the websites (Asus and so on) which your hardware is made by and they will be on there. Good luck!

[Guest]

Just now, A Silver said:

Do you have an optical drive? If so use the included disks and if not go to the websites (Asus and so on) which your hardware is made by and they will be on there. Good luck!

Uhm. Disc are outdated. Website are always better

[DiamondShark286]

everything should work without drivers but once you have windows installed you will need a gpu driver and any gaming mouse/keyboard drivers you need don't use the discs they are probably outdated.

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

GeForce Experience

I'd argue against this because unless you need some specific feature on it (which I haven't bothered to check what those features are), this program does nothing you can't do yourself.

[A Silver]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Uhm. Disc are outdated. Website are always better

The disks have some good software on it. For example my old MSI gpu has MSI Gaming app which is useful so even if you dont use the drivers it would be useful to see what other software is on the disks.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I'd argue against this because unless you need some specific feature on it (which I haven't bothered to check what those features are), this program does nothing you can't do yourself.

GeForce experience have drivers for GPU. That's important. And shadowplay

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

GeForce experience have drivers for GPU. That's important. And shadowplay

The drivers are separate from GFE. When you download run the driver installer, you have the option to omit GFE.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The drivers are separate from GFE. When you download the driver installer, you have the option to omit GFE.

I thought they came with GFE? Driver update has to go through GFE last time I used my GTX 760

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I thought they came with GFE? Driver update has to go through GFE last time I used my GTX 760

GFE updates your drivers automatically for you, but you can do that manually: http://www.geforce.com/drivers

 

Which on that point, you shouldn't really update your drivers unless you need to.

[MilfShake]

6 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I thought they came with GFE? Driver update has to go through GFE last time I used my GTX 760

Oh so you were serious when you recommended GFE?

 

I thought that was sarcastic, so I voted it "Funny", because GFE is shite.

[Bleedingyamato]

45 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I'd argue against this because unless you need some specific feature on it (which I haven't bothered to check what those features are), this program does nothing you can't do yourself.

Perhaps but it does help to make checking for new GPU drivers and downloading them more convenient.  

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but without GE you'd have to go on the GeForce website and manually check for updates drivers yourself right?

 

I use GE so I've never had to use anything else and at least on my main desktop I don't think I've had any issue using it.  

[Bleedingyamato]

38 minutes ago, MilfShake said:

Oh so you were serious when you recommended GFE?

 

I thought that was sarcastic, so I voted it "Funny", because GFE is shite.

Works just fine for me on my desktops.    Idk why you'd have problems with it.  

[WkdPaul]

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[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Perhaps but it does help to make checking for new GPU drivers and downloading them more convenient.  

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but without GE you'd have to go on the GeForce website and manually check for updates drivers yourself right?

 

I use GE so I've never had to use anything else and at least on my main desktop I don't think I've had any issue using it.  

There's no real benefit to updating your drivers unless there's a recent game you want to play and those drivers include optimizations for said game.

 

Drivers are also system software. I don't like touching system software because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The only pass I give is to the OS because security shenanigans.

[Bleedingyamato]

25 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

There's no real benefit to updating your drivers unless there's a recent game you want to play and those drivers include optimizations for said game.

 

Drivers are also system software. I don't like touching system software because if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I used to feel like I should update my GPU drivers anytime GE showed an update available but lately I haven't since I'd found out (from someone on the LTT forums I think) that each new driver version just adds stuff to optimize playing new games.  

 

What else besides GPU drivers should I leave alone?

I don't think I've messed with any other drivers but I figure I'd ask to be safe.  

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I used to feel like I should update my GPU drivers anytime GE showed an update available but lately I haven't since I'd found out (from someone on the LTT forums I think) that each new driver version just adds stuff to optimize playing new games.  

 

What else besides GPU drivers should I leave alone?

I don't think I've messed with any other drivers but I figure I'd ask to be safe.  

Leave all drivers alone. And leave the BIOS alone. Unless you are certain updating them will fix something, don't.

[Bleedingyamato]

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Leave all drivers alone. And leave the BIOS alone. Unless you are certain updating them will fix something, don't.

I have updated my BIOS a couple times hoping it would fix the blue screen crashes I get when I try to enable the XMP profile on my RAM.  

 

A few of the newer BIOS versions mentioned XMP compatibility or I wouldn't have bothered trying.

 

Unfortunately they didn't help it seems and at this point I'm afraid to try again even if there might ever be any more BIOS updates with XMP fixes.  

 

The first time I'd tried updating the BIOS the update worked fine but then when I turned on XMP it not only gave me more blue screen errors but it reverted the BIOS to the version the MB started with.  

 

Idk if it was just that bad of a crash to mess up the BIOS and trigger the backup BIOS to reset things or if that's the default reaction to errors like that.