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ASUS Live Update, Why Don't It Do The Job?

DJWJR
Level 7
Past Laptops I have had that had update software provided by the maker would scan the pc and actually determine what updates were needed on my particular PC; this included drivers and bios updates. The ASUS does not seem to do this. My new G75VW came with Bios version 218 while 223 is listed on the website. Based on this I can see that it is going to require me to check every driver for every part of the system and compare it to the website by version # and date! Is the ASUS Live Update program of any use?
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sectionate
Level 12
you shouldnt update hardware/firmware drivers unless you have a problem with said device.
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sectionate wrote:
you shouldnt update hardware/firmware drivers unless you have a problem with said device.


^ pretty much this.

The only exception would be video drivers as they often improve performance on a number of new and popular titles
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Myk_SilentShado
Level 15
Also chipset drivers i'd have to say are pretty important...if changelogs show a good enough reason for the update...unless the fix is for a major bug.

X-ROG
Level 15
Only graphics drivers provide significant performance boosts tbh. The rest - if it works or Windows update doesn't ask you, don't poke it 🙂

MarshallR@ASUS wrote:
Only graphics drivers provide significant performance boosts tbh. The rest - if it works or Windows update doesn't ask you, don't poke it 🙂


I recently installed an mSATA SSD in my Asus G55 laptop. I was getting half of the write speeds I should have been. I went through the intel website and updated a few various Intel 7 Series Chipset drivers, as well as a SATA controller driver*. (none which were available for download from Asus) My write speeds on my SSD doubled. So some can be more important than one would think.

sectionate
Level 12
here are the chipset drivers -> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx
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sectionate wrote:
here are the chipset drivers -> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx


LOL... pretty sure none of us have AMD chipsets in our G Series Laptops with Intel processors....

sectionate wrote:
here are the chipset drivers -> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx


LOL... pretty sure none of us have AMD chipsets in our G Series Laptops with Intel processors....

lol101
Level 7
The only live update I find to be the best is Lenovo's (IBM) ThinkVantage Update. On a clean install with just the network card working. That thing will scan your system and then give you almost all of the updates for your system. It's great since it can detect drivers for "Unknown devices" in device manager, bios updates, and utilities that originally came with the system like HotKeys, Eject utility, and others.