Quick question about installing drivers for my motherboard a pc I will be building this weekend.

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If everything ships on time, I will have all the parts I need for my PC, and I will start building this Saturday. This is the first PC I've built, so I'm obviously pretty unexperienced if you don't count youtube videos. Pretty much every PC building tutorial I've seen/read has instructed me to download my motherboard's drivers on another computer to a flash drive prior and install them that way. Or if I don't have another functioning computer, I was told to only install the LAN driver from the disk, then download the rest from the website.

Why exactly should I not just install all the drivers from the installation disk? Is it because they might be outdated or something?

I have a computer to another functioning computer, but I just thought using the disk would be much easier and I don't know why I have been instructed not to do that?

My MOBO is an airsick h97 anniversary, by the way.

Thanks for your help!
 
Yes.. The drivers are more up to date. However I always just use the disk. Faster, easier and always virus free. If something needs to be updated I can go to the website and do that after. For the GPU (If you have one) just download GeForce from Nvidia's website and don't don't use the disk.
 

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Okay, thanks. So the same principle (not using the disk) probably also applies for an amd card?
 

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So I guess, I could probably do that for everything, then right? Set up my drivers with the disks and after I'm up and running with internet (and antivirus), get the latest drivers online?