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Sorry but can't totally agree about windows finding drivers. Although W8 has gone long way in finding drivers for all kinds of hardware, it is downloading and installing driver only from MS data base, does not download drivers from the HW manufactures. They are just basic drivers, without bells and whistles "real" drivers usually provide. Win8 silently downloaded drivers for some really ancient and strange HW when I installed it, drivers that I was hunting for long time while using win7. There were few drivers like for Kworld TV card and Bearpaw scanner that were wrong but luckily I was able to find some modified drivers for them. On the other hand, drivers for printers HP4l, HP6and even HP3 and hp1300 were unattainable from HP but now work just fine from MS data base. As I can attest to, if there 's no harm in trying to find drivers thru MS if all else fails but is still best to get them from OEM if they exist. And yes there's a lot of drivers that do not exist in MS data base but can be found other ways. Other ways to find some drivers that are particularly difficult to find is to check at forums. especially ones that deal with the manufacturers for that HW, there are ways and it's being done, to modify drivers from older OSs even from XP, one of them is for my Bearpaw scanner and said Tv card, both modified from w7 and XP drivers to work with win8. The worst case scenario is for "unknown device", than you are in for some serious digging. Fortunately there's no too many non "plug&pray" HW that fits newer systems,otherwise that would be real nightmare.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home made
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen7 2700x
- Motherboard
- Asus Prime x470 Pro
- Memory
- 16GB Kingston 3600
- Graphics Card(s)
- Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
- Hard Drives
- Samsung 960 evo 250GB
Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
WD 1 TB Blue
WD 2 TB Blue
Bunch of backup HDDs.
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- Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
- Case
- Raidmax
- Cooling
- CCM Nepton 140xl
- Internet Speed
- 40/2 Mbps
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- Firefox
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