Just installed Windows 8. Win 7 mobo drivers needed?

[EvilPeppard]

My game rig has a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, LGA1366 motherboard. My wife's game rig has a Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3, LGA 1155 motherboard.

I just installed a new Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD in each machine and a fresh copy of Windows 8 Pro. I upgraded the Nvidia video drivers and RealTek sound drivers, but loaded no other drivers. Windows 8 appears to have detected everything just fine.

My question is, do I need to load the motherboard drivers from Gigabyte's site in my Windows 8 install? They only list Windows 7 drivers for our motherboards, but I want to make sure the correct driver is used for the best performance. Should I be fine with the Windows 8 drivers from the install, or should I install the Windows 7 drivers from the Gigabyte website?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions or advice.

 

[redduc900]

You should always disregard any drivers from the motherboard manufacturer's site, as they're usually outdated. Always download the latest driverset for the individual components directly from the manufacturer of the individual components. For example, the latest X58 chipset software can be downloaded using either the Intel Driver Update Utility...

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/

... or directly from the Download Center:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...=Intel®+Chipset+Software+Installation+Utility

Intel doesn't list an updated INF Update Utility for Win8, so the natively installed driverset in this case would be the latest available.

 

[EvilPeppard]

You should always disregard any drivers from the motherboard manufacturer's site, as they're usually outdated. Always download the latest driverset for the individual components directly from the manufacturer of the individual components. For example, the latest X58 chipset software can be downloaded using either the Intel Driver Update Utility...

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/

... or directly from the Download Center:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...=Intel®+Chipset+Software+Installation+Utility

Intel doesn't list an updated INF Update Utility for Win8, so the natively installed driverset in this case would be the latest available.

Ok, cool. I will check the links you provided.

Thank you for the quick response, and the advice.