ATI system drivers

[superfastkyle]

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

[crazyates]

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.