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To be fair manufacturers just repackage Intel's drivers... or anyone's drivers really. There's seldom times where the drivers are actually custom, and its usually the case with laptops rather than desktops. If you go to the page and download the network driver, it just installs the Intel INF files using some cursed autoinstall procedure, not too different from Intel's own (rather antiquated) driver install.
It's like expecting any motherboard manufacturer to keep the chipset driver updated on their page, just get it on AMD's page.
TL;DR: ASUS does not provide the driver updates. The manufacturer of the part provides the driver updates (Realtek/Intel/Mediatek/etc). For audio drivers usually Windows drivers are fine. Do not expect ANY motherboard manufacturer to keep them up to date on their page, it's not their in-house parts and they don't make the drivers for them. This is the case for any motherboard vendor, do not trust the latest version on their page, even if they update it every so often.
ASUS is really good at pushing BIOS updates on AMD boards compared to other manufacturers, but I've heard less than great stuff about the intel side of things. Oh well. I don't think keeping the drivers updated on their page is a reason, though. Other brands don't, either.
God damned Armoury Crate that installs itself by default with no prompts with an option you have to disable in the BIOS tho? Fuck that lmao
I thin when the driver is fixing specific issues, they should also at least link to the website for the download. Why even have a driver section in support then?
Armoury Crate is a joke and I was lucky I was reading forum stuff on Asus MB's and came across all the complaints about AC and disabled it in the bios before this virus could infect my PC.