Hi all,
Recently built a new gaming PC. It has been working very well overall but I'm very new to PC building and just wanted to make doubly sure that I've not missed any drivers that I need to maintain.
After putting my PC together and getting windows booted, I have updated:
Aside from these three driver updates, is there any other software I'm missing or can I just go straight to gaming?
I also had a bit of confusion regarding the chipset driver specifically. It seems that there are two sources to download it: One from the AMD support page (https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x570) and one from my motherboard's support page (https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Motherboard/X570-UD-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver-chipset).
I'm not sure if these are different versions of the same thing or are two different things entirely, but since the dates listed for the two files were different I ran both executables; the first one I ran was the one from the AMD support page (2.04.04.111, April 2020), and the one I ran after that was from the motherboard support page (19.10.16, July 2019).
Are these two files the same thing? If they are, should I re-install the 2.04.04.111 file found on the AMD support page again since it is more up-to-date and would over-write the file from the motherboard support page that I ran most recently? And if I do have to re-install the driver from the AMD support page, should I first uninstall my current chipset driver or will installing the more updated one overwrite the out-of-date one automatically?
Sorry about all the newbie questions, and thanks in advance everyone for the help.
Recently built a new gaming PC. It has been working very well overall but I'm very new to PC building and just wanted to make doubly sure that I've not missed any drivers that I need to maintain.
After putting my PC together and getting windows booted, I have updated:
- My BIOS (F12e)
- My GPU graphics driver (RTX 2060S)
- AM4 X570 Chipset driver (Ryzen 3600x).
Aside from these three driver updates, is there any other software I'm missing or can I just go straight to gaming?
I also had a bit of confusion regarding the chipset driver specifically. It seems that there are two sources to download it: One from the AMD support page (https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x570) and one from my motherboard's support page (https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Motherboard/X570-UD-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver-chipset).
I'm not sure if these are different versions of the same thing or are two different things entirely, but since the dates listed for the two files were different I ran both executables; the first one I ran was the one from the AMD support page (2.04.04.111, April 2020), and the one I ran after that was from the motherboard support page (19.10.16, July 2019).
Are these two files the same thing? If they are, should I re-install the 2.04.04.111 file found on the AMD support page again since it is more up-to-date and would over-write the file from the motherboard support page that I ran most recently? And if I do have to re-install the driver from the AMD support page, should I first uninstall my current chipset driver or will installing the more updated one overwrite the out-of-date one automatically?
Sorry about all the newbie questions, and thanks in advance everyone for the help.
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