Installing Windows 10 on an Older Machine

[wheely34]

I have a computer here I am getting ready to sell. I built this machine back in 2010 with an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard and a Phenom X6. Just installed windows 10, and as to be expected, Asus does not offer Windows 10/8.1/8 drivers for this board, only Windows 7. Would it be a better idea for me to install Windows 7, install all the correct drivers, then perform the free upgrade to Windows 10? Or should I just trust Windows 10 to download/install everything I need? Not looking for the most convenience way to do this, looking for the correct way.

Thanks!

 

[Silverbear]

The Windows 10 default drivers will be perfectly fine. I have an Asus M4A88TD-V EVO (which is practically your motherboard's little brother) and an Athlon II X4 630 and Windows 10 install went perfectly smooth, no errors.

 

[k1114]

Both ways do the same thing as far as drivers are concerned. They all get installed because all windows' files are new. If you look in device manager and see no yellow "!" then you are fine. It does not use default drivers or else you'd be seeing generic names on all the devices. Windows update is actually good about getting all necessary drivers.

 

[Bo Lee]

Trust Windows 10 to download the right drivers. In my experience, it does a great job of it and the last time I did a clean install, the only driver I had to update was the GPU driver. Windows 10 still have a decent VGA driver, but to get multip screen use and all the benefits of my card I had to download the proper driver, but other than that, Win10 got it all right.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a 2009 era low end Toshiba laptop. Celeron 2.2GHz. 2GB RAM. Win 10.

No extra drivers needed, everything 'just works'.