driver updates

whatswrongwithyou · February 9, 2017

hey guys, im getting a new laptop soon (MSI gt73vr 7rf) and i always hear that i should update the drivers from websites... i never did a fresh windows installation before, i always had a friend do it for me. and it's diffrent when you're updating existing drivers rather than downloading non existent ones... so im kinda lost on what i should do. should i just go to the motherboard's website and download the drivers and simply install them? or is there a process involved??

one more question. how can i check if drivers are outdated on a PC or Laptop?

thank you so much for the help.

Avve1000 · February 9, 2017

9 minutes ago, fiff said:

hey guys, im getting a new laptop soon (MSI gt73vr 7rf) and i always hear that i should update the drivers from websites... i never did a fresh windows installation before, i always had a friend do it for me. and it's diffrent when you're updating existing drivers rather than downloading non existent ones... so im kinda lost on what i should do. should i just go to the motherboard's website and download the drivers and simply install them? or is there a process involved??

one more question. how can i check if drivers are outdated on a PC or Laptop?

thank you so much for the help.

watch this! if im wrong look up what you have for parts, some parts have its own drivers program like this

LogicalDrm · February 10, 2017

Your post is bit confusing. New laptops have almost latest drivers already. With laptops you should use manufacturers own software or laptops product site/support pages for drivers. Those will be 100% compatible. For desktops you don't have one central for everything. So there mobos product page, Nvidia/AMDs site + peripherals are the places to go. With Win10, OS has better support for downloading drivers along with updates.

Drivers don't really go "out of date". Newer version are released but mostly its about compatibility and bug fixes, sometimes performance improvements. Generally only GPU drivers are the ones you want to keep up to date. Rest aren't that important and often get updated when you have issues. With laptops (again), manufacturers software is best thing. It will check all drivers and update if needed. Same goes with Win10. For desktop you can go to device manager and open driver page for each. Compare version numbers with what is listed on support site.