What drivers to choose? Multiple versions and weird dates? please help

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miladea

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Hi
I'm trying to download drivers to my motherboard "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-M PRO (LGA1155)"
I'm at the Asus download site https://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/39/7/4/VRY7tGqmUro3DlBJ/41/ and I have chosen operating system win 8.1 64bit


Should I download all of the drivers under the tabs chipset, lan, audio, sata controler and vga?
Because if you take the vga for instance, there are two drivers listed under that tab:
2013/09/30 Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V9.17.10.3223
and
2013/09/25 Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V10.18.10.3262

Do I need both of them or do I only pick the latest version aka V10.18.10.3262. I'm a bit perplexed thou since the driver with the higher version number (v10) was created five days BEFORE (v9) How can that be? because to me it seams that the (v9) is the latest version but why is it called (v9) then and not for example (v11)? So witch one is the correct one to download? or do I take both? Do they need to be installed in some particular order?
 
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CountMike

CountMike

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Download everything in sight, sometimes an older driver would do better than newer one. You may need to experiment with them for best results. Make a folder and put and keep all drivers in it, also BIOS update files, programs and manuals. All of that can come handy.
Best time to do that is before you actually buy parts, a manual would tell you more than anything else about parts.
 
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Tradesman1

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Just get the latest versions of each driver, the newest will contain what was in previous unless the previous was a bad update and thus was corrected. I.e. if a 3 versions old BIOS update provided for new CPUs that will also be in the latest. Experimenting with older versions isn't really a good idea as you don't know what all is in an update - they generally list 1-2 things, but there are often tons of other things, particularly DRAM updates and the 'Ooops updates' that fix something they don't want you to know they screwed up on ;)
 
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miladea

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Ok so I only need the latest, great 
But How to know which is the latest one? As for in my example above, where the newest driver has a lower version number?
" 2013/09/30 Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V9.17.10.3223
and
2013/09/25 Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V10.18.10.3262 "
"the higher version number (v10) was created five days BEFORE (v9)"

So do I go by the date and pick v9 or do I go by the version number and pick v10?
 
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