I recently built my first gaming PC with some solid specs: an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU, a GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 motherboard, and a range of high-quality components including a Lian Li water cooler, 32 GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, and a PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU. I'm about to set everything up with Windows, and I'm wondering about the best way to install drivers. I've come across a lot of negative comments about the Gigabyte Control Center and its potential to cause issues with GPU and Windows functionality. Should I completely avoid installing it, or can I use it just for initial driver setup and then remove it? Any recommendations for alternative solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help!
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To install your drivers, head over to the motherboard support page. You'll just need the audio, ethernet/wifi, and chipset drivers—Windows can handle the rest for you!
Honestly, Gigabyte's Control Software doesn't really offer anything better than what you can find elsewhere. Windows usually handles most drivers automatically, but for your GPU, go straight to AMD or Nvidia's site for the best manual drivers. Don't rely on software that's supposed to update drivers automatically; it's usually not worth it.
Alrighty. Thank you very much kind sir.
I would personally never install the bloatware that comes with motherboard companies. It’s safer to bookmark the motherboard's site and periodically check for any manual driver updates instead of using bundled software.
If you have various lighting devices, you might consider using Lian Li's software along with a Corsair plugin. It’s often better to download your drivers directly from the board's support page to avoid conflicts with GCC. Just make sure you check the hardware revision on your board, which you'll find printed on it. Verifying that will help you access the right drivers. And don't forget to check for an SSD firmware update using the SanDisk Dashboard app, then uninstall that after updating.
Thanks for the info my man! I do have a question. What do you mean with Lian Li Software + Corsair plug in? Is this some software that I can use to control all RGB in my hardware?
Lol, for a second I thought you were asking about the compilers!
Thanks for your reply man! Appreciate it.