Hello All!
I was on the ASUS support website and I noticed that there are multiple driver updates available for my computer including chipset and video driver updates. My system is pretty stable (see system specs below) and Sonar performance is okay except for the occasional crackles, pops and clicks in VST intensive projects.
Should I update these drivers? Will it improve performance or am I just asking for trouble?
I value your opinion!

It can't hurt, it may help, it may not. Just be prepared to do a rollback if you see performance get worse.
 

Yes and run windows update. And get yourself a decent backup strategy if you don't have already.

Danial: it is the correct way to build a rock solid hard disk recorder , from time to time one must also read bios revs.
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Any user here that tells you not to.. should not be giving advice, on this or any form !

emwhy, thanks for your siggestion.. If I do, I'll be sure to prepare for a roll back..
 
CakeAlexS, I'm all up to date on Windows but that's good advice!  I also spent a lot of effort on back up recently. Currently backing up all projects to an external USB hard drive AND to a cloud server.. I remember someone saying, if your data doesn't exisit in three locations, it doesn't exisit at all!
 
StarTekh, thanks for your generous offer! I may take you up on that!

Danial:  http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=14&s=11&m=CG5275&os=&hashedid=oXcb4oz2IAGY8VHF
 
Version  9.1.1.1023
 
Intel Chipset Driver V9.1.1.1023 for Windows 32/64bit XP & 32/64bit Vista & 32/64bit Windows 7.
 
although this driver is old .. it is the correct driver for your system

Danial i raed the bios rev's .. can you d/l and install cpu-z and tell me that bios rev the board is running ..ty

After you do an ASUS update please go to :
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect
 
This may have later drivers...

I'm not sure I'd agree 100% with StarTekh. I'd say this:
 
If you're system is running stable, and there's nothing wrong with it, then you'd ideally want to avoid messing with it. If you do, be prepared to kick yourself in the behind and rollback the updates.
 
If it's a net-PC (which I assume most DAWs are at this point), then Windows, Java, Adobe, etc. updates are a necessary evil (just for security purposes), but I'd avoid driver updates like the plague on a stable system. 
 
Now...if you're system is NOT stable and you suspect one or more drivers are giving you issues (like a bad video driver causing crashes when watching videos), then you could always try to upgrade one at a time versus all at once. This way, you can give the update a few days to see if it addresses your problem or not before updating the driver for your next system component.
 
With all that said: I personally try to keep things up to date, but then again, I've never had that fabled "entirely stable" system. 

If you have the latest driver (and firmware) generally this is the most stable and fastest, as that's the whole reason that updates are released (well on the whole).
...and if you have a decent backup strategy there's just no real issue about updating, you can easily roll back in the unlikely event that something goes wrong.
Win, win and rollback if you lose.
Sorry I'm not part of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" brigade (old school thinking to be honest) as it seems the people who have the most issues are the people who don't update often enough or who keep their machines permanently offline. If you keep your software up to date you avoid dependency issues. Updates keep your system stable, maybe 5+ years ago things were different when patches were less reliable...