Question Windows 11 Drivers VS. Manufactures Drivers for Older Motherboard

[jdandy1234]

Hey Tom / All

I have been building & supporting PCS since the Mid 80's, so I have plenty of experience. Just wants your opinion...

Over the years, when you do a clean install of windows, windows does a pretty decent job of loading all its drivers for you. Not "perfect", but just works most of the time. In the past, When clean installing windows, I would always use my motherboards drivers (Chip-sets, WIFI, LAN, Sound, Bluetooth..etc) over Microsoft's because of the possibility some performance improvement.

I usually upgrade my motherboard often, but i have not upgraded since 2017. I currently have a ASUS Maximus X Code, and they have not updated their drivers in a long time. I am about to do my yearly windows clean-install of Windows 11.. Should I even bother with installing the ASUS drivers this time..is there really any performance difference... or do I just leave on Microsoft drivers, and call it a day ?..and yes, I realize that Win 11 is Just Win10 under the hood.

On a side note...when you go onto ASUS website, and go to their drivers section, why in the hell does ASUS give you WINRAR to download ? Dont get me wrong, I love WinRAR, and have for years, but ASUS should at least give you the full licensed version..not some version you can get anywhere :-(

Thank you all

 

[Deleted member 362816]

Windows 11 in my experience does a pretty good job at auto-loading drivers even for older hardware. Did you add a TPM module to get windows 11 to install on that board?

 

[kerberos_20]

if its not laptop, then you dont have to use manufacturer drivers,maybe just for soundcard as those are usualy OEM customised and generic drivers would miss some hardware features which manufacturer added
other than soundcard youre free to use any other driver you find on intel driver assistant

 

[kerberos_20]

Did you add a TPM module to get windows 11 to install on that board

its 8th gen, it should have fTPM in CPU, board doesnt have any TPM module you can add, PPT is the only TPM you can use

 

[Colif]

and they have not updated their drivers in a long time

they have 2 drivers listed for win 11 but its just as easy to run https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html and let it update you to newer intel drivers - that will do lan/wifi & chipset.
grab GPU drivers as well
windows can probably do the rest...
win 11 will have newer versions of realtek audio compared to the 2019 driver on Asus.
you don't really need/want armory crate. it can be more trouble than good.

winrar: I expect thats a paid advert really, many companies pay them to put their apps on site to get name of software out. Norton AV seem to be on all of them as well.