Which drivers are necessary installs for a Gigabyte P55A-UD4P motherbo

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I am putting together a new system based around the Gigabyte P55A-UD4P motherboard and using Windows 7 x64 for the OS. I have downloaded all of the drivers from Gigabyte website but some of them seem unnecessary. I am hoping to create a base image of the the OS and drivers for a backup once I have everything installed.

So far I have installed the following drivers:
Realtek Function driver Realtek Function driver for Realtek Azalia audio chip
Intel Intel INF installation
Realtek Realtek LAN Driver
NEC USB 3.0 Driver

Other drivers I am not sure if I should install are the following:
Realtek Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic Utility
Marvell RAID Utility (SATA3)
GIGABYTE GIGABYTE SATA2 Driver
GIGABYTE GIGABYTE SATA2 Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Intel SATA RAID Driver
Marvell Console Driver (SATA3)

I am not currently currently planning on RAID at the motherboard level for any of my hard disks. Do I need to install the Marvell, Gigabyte, or Intel Sata Raid Drivers? The Marvell driver in particular seems brain dead as it includes a web-server that asks the OS firewall to open ports.

Should I install any of the drivers I have not already installed?

 

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This topic has been moved from the section Windows 7 to section Motherboards & Memory by Buwish

 

[gaktoid]

I am putting together a new system based around the Gigabyte P55A-UD4P motherboard and using Windows 7 x64 for the OS. I have downloaded all of the drivers from Gigabyte website but some of them seem unnecessary. I am hoping to create a base image of the the OS and drivers for a backup once I have everything installed.

So far I have installed the following drivers:
Realtek Function driver Realtek Function driver for Realtek Azalia audio chip
Intel Intel INF installation
Realtek Realtek LAN Driver
NEC USB 3.0 Driver

Other drivers I am not sure if I should install are the following:
Realtek Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic Utility
Marvell RAID Utility (SATA3)
GIGABYTE GIGABYTE SATA2 Driver
GIGABYTE GIGABYTE SATA2 Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Intel SATA RAID Driver
Marvell Console Driver (SATA3)

I am not currently currently planning on RAID at the motherboard level for any of my hard disks. Do I need to install the Marvell, Gigabyte, or Intel Sata Raid Drivers? The Marvell driver in particular seems brain dead as it includes a web-server that asks the OS firewall to open ports.

Should I install any of the drivers I have not already installed?

Marvell - If you disable GSATA and SATA3 in the BIOS you don't need these drivers.
Gigabyte SATA - If you disable ESATA in the BIOS you don't need these drivers.
Intel SATA - This handles AHCI mode also, recommended.
Ethernet Diagnostic - not a driver, not required.

-Gak Toid