thetechguy said:
SlimDrivers for sure. It's a pain to go the the manufacturer because sometimes they won't have the model listed on older computers, etc. It's much easier to use a website or a program that will get the right drivers for your machine from the separate hardware sites. Never trust the computer makers drivers. Either use software or go to individual sites for every part. Also I never trust Windows Update either. To each his own.
It is actual very rare for older computers and older hardware to need driver updates. Driver updates are usually only developed for newer hardware, even hardware less than one year old may never need any driver updates.
If have bought brand new hardware that still use the original drivers that was included because newer drivers did not support them.
If you can't find driver updates on your manufacture website and the hardware still works, it is more than likely you don't need a new driver.
Installing new drivers with driver updater software will not give you any benefits unless you can read the changelogs of updates and see if it even applies to your hardware, what improvements were made, etc. Changelogs are only posted on manufacture websites.
As I stated before each system may only support certain drivers, you can't apply the same driver updates to all systems and expect to get good results the way that driver updater software tries to do.
Enjoy!!