By Molly Smith
When you get the device name and find out its supporting drivers from some driver download websites, usually there are a great number of different drivers for you to choose. Well, then do you know how to choose the best one for your computer device?In the first place, you should clear about what kind of operating system is in use, because suppliers often write distinct drivers for different Windows systems. When you get a driver through Internet, you can also see its available OS (such as Windows 2000/XP or Windows 98 /ME) following this driver description. You need to choose the driver with the correct OS. Otherwise your computer probably would work improperly or even shut down.
When you confirm the supporting system of your driver, you still would get many diverse versions to select. Take the commonly used Geforce video card as an example, we will find 53.03 version, 56.72 version and 61.11 version and so on. Usually, the larger the number is, the newer this version will be. Then some users may think that according to this principle, they should choose the version with the largest number for it is the latest one. It is true that the latest driver has the latest technology and it should be the best in principle. However, actually we should note that what kind of driver it is. In many cases, in order to be the first to capture the market or simply test some new technology, some of the latest drivers have not passed the very important WHQL (Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab) certification.
A driver not passing the WHQL certification has no problem for computer gurus, because they take it as a pleasure to try the new technology, but for most PC users who need a stable system, they should pick up the driver that has passed this certification. On this premise, the newer the version is, the better this driver will be. However, there are always exceptions to everything, for instance, some UDA Nvidia video cards are not always fit for certain older video cards, for these drivers, you'd better learn about the driver evaluations in some related driver forums or refer to computer experts.
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