Alex: In general I stick to Motherboards home page support, as the chipset drivers there are known to be stable and are for that board ! Thanks for jumping in on the post you offer sound upto date advice !

When it comes to workstations dedicated to a single purpose, "if it ain't broke, don't fix" it is a good practice"  Downloading the latest and greatest drivers makes the assumption that your DAW software has been optimized to work with that update.  Sometimes it is the opposite.  In any case, having a good rollback strategy is a good idea.

Install the Os... update the os... Install motherboard chipset drives and latest video drivers....then run....if it ain't broke, don't fix"..
 
You can then spend time on song writing, and if a issue comes up . at lest you will have a ground... to work from

It is easy to roll back a driver update these days if it poisons your system. Application updates and firmware (BIOS) updates can be more problematic. An update that fixes a problem with one part of the system, written by the support people for that part, is never guaranteed to play well with everything else that may be on your system. If you do updates enough times you will find one that screws something up. Even Windows security updates have been known to be problematic. You can freeze the entire software system in a disk image if you want to be sure of an exit. Some BIOs updates can also be restored, but figuring out how can be difficult sometimes. And on some hardware you can still make the computer/device permanently unusable by a firmware/Bios update gone bad.

If it aint broke don't fix it.  When it comes to a BIOS even the manufacturers recommend not updating unless it's totally necessary. 

> If it aint broke don't fix it.  When it comes to a BIOS even the manufacturers recommend not updating unless it's totally necessary. 
 
Really? Please supply me the link to the manufacturer who recomends not doing BIOS updates? BIOSs nowadays are easy and pretty safe to update and rollback. If you've ever done server support for instance you will probably be doing regular BIOS updates and pushing out firmware like windows update. Even my TV and router has firmware updates pushed out from the manufacturer (automated). I generally wait an extra month though before I do it in case of any issues. In the future (maybe years away) I expect firmware and BIOS updates to be rolled out automatically like any software update), BIOS updates are no big deal any more. There you go.

>  In general I stick to Motherboards home page support, as the chipset drivers there are known to be stable and are for that board !
 
ASUS will probably get the updates from Intel on the whole (they make the chipsets after all). Generally it's a matter of waiting for ASUS to copy and paste chipsets from Intel to ASUS. If ASUS has the latest or there is some issue then Intel autoupdate will simply do nothing. Intel autoupdate won't supply BIOS updates for the board.

if it ain't broke fix it til it is

if it ain't broke fix it til it is

@Lawp, I couldnt agree more.