Question Do i install every motherboard driver?

[TorshovG]

I just installed Windows on my PC.

I visited my motherboard's website to download the drivers for it: https://www.asus.com/us/supportonly/sabertooth_x99/helpdesk_download/

Should I download all the drivers listed there, or just the most recent one for each category?

Thanks!

 

[NedSmelly]

Open Device Manager and see what hardware requires new drivers. Then install the ones needed to remove the error warnings.

Usually it’s just the chipset drivers. Windows Update will likely find drivers for everything else.

 

[35below0]

The latest one.

You can also use ASUS' Armoury Crate manager to download and install and update all neccessary drivers.

 

[kerberos_20]

intel chipsets doesnt really need "chipset" drivers, as intel doesnt even provide any
that just leave you with storage drivers (raid/rst if you have it enabled), audio driver, network driver
usb3 can be ignored aswell unless you run windows 7

 

[SkyNetRising]

intel chipsets doesnt really need "chipset" drivers, as intel doesnt even provide any

Yes they do need chipset drivers.
Without chipset drivers installed, multiple devices can be left unidentified or
even not detected at all.

 

[35below0]

intel chipsets doesnt really need "chipset" drivers, as intel doesnt even provide any
that just leave you with storage drivers (raid/rst if you have it enabled), audio driver, network driver
usb3 can be ignored aswell unless you run windows 7

Motherboard vendors usually provide drivers with "chipset" in the name, and it's best practise to install it.

 

[kerberos_20]

Yes they do need chipset drivers.
Without chipset drivers installed, multiple devices can be left unidentified or
even not detected at all.

which devices?
intel states no chipset driver provided from intel unless you have NUC/all-in-one
his mainboard drivers doesnt contain single chipset driver
there is some mei "driver" under chipset section, but once you check whats inside, youll be surprised to find out just windows update hofix for windows 7 (win 6.1 KB2685811), which is still available from windows update catalog and for some odd reason asus provides it for windows 10 driver download
and ime itself, which is just backdoor which reduces performance..

 

[SkyNetRising]

which devices?

Various devices often found in Device Manager - System Devices section.

his mainboard drivers doesnt contain single chipset driver
there is some mei "driver" under chipset section

Yes it does contain chipset drivers.
You have to click on <See All Downloads> button, to see them.