Laptop Drivers: Dell or up to date from OEM?

pete_agreatguy · 2 Apr 2017 at 17:07

Hi all,

Is it best to install Dell vendor drivers or up to date OEM (e.g. Intel RST) drivers?

swain90 · 18 Apr 2017 at 08:49

I've always found the PC manufacturers website to be a little out of date so tend to just go Intel, Realtek websites etc...

pete_agreatguy · 18 Apr 2017 at 08:55

Thanks for your reply @swain90, I have been advised elsewhere to use Dell drivers directly as laptop manufacturers tweak their drivers for each specific device.

LEK-89 · 18 Apr 2017 at 10:27

For Dell drivers the only ones I get directly from the Dell website are the likes of the Realtek sound / networking drivers, Intel RST / misc. drivers. For the likes of the graphics drivers, I get these directly from the manufacturers websites as these are updated more regularly than Dell publish them.

Liam.