{"id":1107,"date":"2025-05-02T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tqh.info\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:15:43","slug":"performance-impact-of-motherboard-drivers-excluding-armoury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tqh.info\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Performance impact of Motherboard Drivers (excluding Armoury)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Overview:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>

Today i am testing a controversial topic: Motherboard Drivers.<\/span><\/p>

I always try to inform people that they usually just cause problems, them being bloat essentially.<\/span>
So i finally ran the test on my z790 Apex Encore (because driver packages are unique to a specific motherboard).<\/span>
to show the real difference in performance.<\/span><\/p>

Note: these severe fps drops might not translate 1:1 for someone on a different motherboard OR it might even be worse.<\/span><\/p>

Keep in mind this is a 14900K with overclocked RAM (8400cl32) so not all of the systems are going to be fortunate to have this many cores.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Clean Start:
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Clean Start:
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Here<\/a><\/span><\/p>

Note: I was even nice enough to not count the 0.1% 26 value in the second run in the “Conclusion Chart” even though im 100% sure this would happen more often\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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What ever happened to our beloved Driver-Packages that we could just install without worries.\u00a0
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Anyway here are the average numbers out of 3 runs:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0Average<\/span> -3.2%<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a01% Low\u00a0-38.48%\u00a0 \u00a0 \/\u00a0 \u00a0 0.1% Low\u00a0 -52.77%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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After this it should be pretty\u00a0<\/em>clear that you should not just recommend these without informing the user about this potentially huge performance loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

While system security and updated drivers are undeniably critical, they should not come at the expense of performance, especially when the trade off results in a significant degradation of user experience.<\/span><\/p>

-Tqhr<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overview: Today i am testing a controversial topic: Motherboard Drivers. I always try to inform people that they usually just cause problems, them being bloat essentially.So i finally ran the test on my z790 Apex Encore (because driver packages are unique to a specific motherboard).to show the real difference in performance. Note: these severe fps … <\/p>\n

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