Manufacturer Drivers Vs. Windows Drivers
Dec 26, 2009
I recently purchased a Lenovo K230 Desktop and installed 64-bit Win 7 Pro.
Everything works fine... but I'm a little OCD about drivers and making sure everything is up to date.
So here's my question: I found a dedicated Lenovo site with drivers to most of my devices here.
If Windows has assigned it's own drivers (which in some cases are newer), should I just ignore the drivers on the Lenovo site unless something is not working?
Example: Intel has a network card driver on the site, but it's older than the driver Win 7 provided. Is there any benefit from using Intel's driver -- which is 180megs btw (why it needs to be that big puzzles me).
So... Manufacturer drivers Vs. Windows drivers? Any benefit to going back to the manufacturer and using their drivers or just leave things as-is?
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