packaged drivers necessary?

yuyuman

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all right so ive finally built my pc. its all up and good. when i installed windows as i mentioned in a previous thread i had some trouble with my wi fi card but thats all set. so when i let windows update do its thing it seemed to have pretty much got everything. im able to play team fortress 2 perfectly (only game ive been able to test yet) so i still have my motherbboard and my gpu disks that came with my pc so ... do i need them? because im not kidding when i say windows update pretty much nailed it. unless im forgetting something maybe win update doesnt handle one certain thing? thanks guys. (sorry if this might belong in win 7 but its kind of broad so not sure) btw i know its pointless to ask but i really dont feel like putting 'em in unless i have to. the mobo disk particularly from what ive heard comes with some bloatware.
 
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you could go to the board manufacturer website and make sure you have all the latest versions installed for all the drivers listed there. There were also some other programs packaged on my board disc that I wanted so I got them off there. But regardless, just check the driver version listed in windows with the one listed as the latest on the website and update if needed, if not then you are fine.
Well you do not have to install the bloatware. The drivers on the other hand yes unless windows (latest version pretty good at that) does it for you, there would be yellow exclamation marks in device manager indicating if you have hardware without drivers.
 


nope none of that. everything works. and yes i know i can opt out of the bloatware. but basically all it is is bloatware and the chipset driver which i think win update took care of. im not exaggerating when i say that windows isnt having any problems
 
you could go to the board manufacturer website and make sure you have all the latest versions installed for all the drivers listed there. There were also some other programs packaged on my board disc that I wanted so I got them off there. But regardless, just check the driver version listed in windows with the one listed as the latest on the website and update if needed, if not then you are fine.
 
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