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Title: ATI system drivers
Post by: superfastkyle on July 29, 2013, 03:12:48 AM
Do you guys ever install them? anyone know what they do? I have no idea what is in this almost 1GB of system drivers that come with my motherboard? I always pick up my video drivers from AMD website and I currently have no devices showing missing drivers in device manager without installing them


Title: Re: ATI system drivers
Post by: crazyates on July 29, 2013, 04:30:47 AM
Ya, I always download the Chipset drivers and keep them up to date right along with the display drivers. It doesn't make a huge difference, but a fresh install of Windows will use the generic drivers for some hardware, or not even have drivers for others.

Examples: You could use the Microsoft drivers for your SATA adapters, but I like using the AMD ones. And sometimes Windows doesn't have any drivers for the SM Bus Controller, so you have to download and install the AMD ones.