Drivers AMD vs ASUS?? ASUS vs Nvidia??

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So, I'm the proud new owner of a system with Ryzen 5 1600, ASUS ROG Strix B350F Gaming and the Asus GTX 1060 3GB Dual OC.

Question. Where do I download the drivers from? Which drivers do I need?

Drivers from the Nvidia site? or from the Graphics/VGA drivers from the Asus site?

Chipset Drivers(not sure why except the Ryzen Balanced Power plan thing) again, AMD site or ASUS site?

Whats the difference?

Do I need the Audio, LAN, USB 3.1/3.0, Sata Raid and Utilities drivers shown on the Asus site?

What other drivers do I need?
 
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Roland Of Gilead
+1^ captaincharisma is bang on.

GPU : Always Nvdia/AMD driver download sites.
Motherboard: Chipset, lan, Audio and anything else on the Asus site (searching for specific driver/tools for your mobo version).

The primary reason for that is, that motherboards differ massively hardware wise, with different capabilities and components, so always get the drivers from the manufacturer, as in your case Asus, will have tested them specifically for comparability and is best. With GPU's they are reference designs, and although they differ with different coolers, and OC and all manner of small things, typically the hardware and components are the same, with the exception of fans/cooling solutions and cloockspeed/mem speed. So the driver from...
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+1^ captaincharisma is bang on.

GPU : Always Nvdia/AMD driver download sites.
Motherboard: Chipset, lan, Audio and anything else on the Asus site (searching for specific driver/tools for your mobo version).

The primary reason for that is, that motherboards differ massively hardware wise, with different capabilities and components, so always get the drivers from the manufacturer, as in your case Asus, will have tested them specifically for comparability and is best. With GPU's they are reference designs, and although they differ with different coolers, and OC and all manner of small things, typically the hardware and components are the same, with the exception of fans/cooling solutions and cloockspeed/mem speed. So the driver from Nvidia will always be update more quickly than the motherboard manufacturer. In some cases the GPU driver found on the Asus website, would be 3 or 4 iterations older than the one Nvidia releases, which is typically every month.

It's in the interest of the GPU makers to update the drivers regularly to new games can run well on them, and not have GPU owners up in arms if things didn't work as they should. With mobo's you may get updates maybe 2 or 3 times a year for a year or two and then after that they will stop. As it's not in the interest of the mobo makers to keep doing it, as all the kinks are generally ironed out by then.

For other peripherals, like some mice/keyboards, you will be able to use them with the Windows generic driver, but most (specially gaming mice/keyboards) will often have an adapted driver and software package. Best to get those from the manufacturer of the peripheral. e.g Logitech, Razor etc.
 
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