There is a school of thought - to which I strongly subscribe - that says "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". In other words: if your machine works and is stable, and performs as you would hope, then there is no point in updating your drivers for the simple reason that it's not unknown for updated drivers to cause problems.

That said, if you're determined to go ahead and try and wreck a perfectly serviceable machine... :-) I use DriverMax for capturing, saving and reinstalling drivers and, IIRC, it has the facility to check for updated drivers.

You only need to update drivers if there is a prblem, and my advice then would be to go to the manufacturers site.

Years ago I would have agreed that updating Drivers was not a good thing to do but for the last 5 years I have updated a desktop using Vista and since the purchase of a laptop running W7 64 bit I have updated all the drivers that I get notification of. Including getting emails from Nvidia to update, and touch wood have never had a problem. After all you update programmes why not update drivers which sort out little problems and make your computers run more effiently, as long as they are digitally signed and genuine manufacterers updates what is the problem after all they would not update drivers if there is no reason to update. you can always roll back the driver if the updated one does not work to expectations.

I'm one of those sad people who insists on keeping both my programmes and my drivers up to date. Consequently I use DriverMax to do so and it has rarely provided me with drivers that I do not like. The exception has been with their recommeded driver for HD Audio on my Toshiba laptop which flat refuses to work. I do subscribe to the "don't update the BIOS unless you positively have to" train of thought though.

If you consider that operating systems and programs are changing all the time with updates by microsoft with their operating systems to fix bugs and also the updating of all office programs, virus programmes being updated to new systems they are all being updated underneath your lid. so it comes apparent that the drivers have to keep up with all these changes to the programmes and systems that you believe you have not changed. how many of these requests made on PCA that their PC has got slower are just because of the drivers not being kept up with their update systems (not the upgraded new systems) one must look at all aspects updating drivers.