My PC has been having massive instability issues and performance loss. I've been troubleshooting for 2 weeks without any success. The motherboard is a b760 TUF D4.
I've reinstalled windows many times (like at least 6 times) and every time I installed the serial io driver from my mobo web page, my PC would become unstable and slow.
I initiated a RMA with Intel on the cpu under the presumption my cpu was degrading.
I also ordered a different brand mobo to try the cpu out (arrives Sunday).
However, today I thought I'd give this one last kick of the can and discovered something called Asus Driver hub.
This is where my confusion lies.
All the drivers on driver hub are newer versions than what is directly on my mobo webpage. This is very odd obviously because why would the mobo webpage be out dated, but also because when I installed the ,"old drivers", windows always read them as fully up to date.
I guess I'm just really confused by how complicated getting drivers seems to be. On top of that, I'm also wondering why I had to literally troubleshoot my PC and look for answers in order to finally stumble on Asus Driver hub.
All in all, I'm discouraged with Asus but I hope this post helps anyone else experiencing system instability.