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DifferenceRGB Fusion in GCC: Includes newly designed UI with optimized RGB Sync methodology that comes with Gigabyte Control Center (GCC).

RGB Fusion 2: GIGABYTE's earlier RGB control software which is capable of running independently without dependence of other software. For supported RGB products and motherboard models please refer to the RGB Fusion 2 support page.

Installation

RGB Fusion in GCC: Is available for download and install through Update Center when supported components are detected.

RGB Fusion 2 : Can be downloaded directly from RGB Fusion 2 page or the products' page.

The two software can be installed and executed in the same environment at the same time.

Using

Both RGB Fusion in GCC and RGB Fusion 2 can be used to control the RGB effects of supported products. When both software are running simultaneously, the selected RGB effect on the product will follow the last adjustment.

For example: When you attempt to set the LED effect to Static mode with a red color through the RGB Fusion in GCC. The previous RGB effect which was configured with RGB Fusion 2 will be replaced with a static red color.

The Sync All button serves as a easy method to sync all RGB devices with a single click; with available LED sync modes listed on the right-side column.

*Notes. The available LED effects may be limited by selected products.

The Sync On/Off button allows adding or removing RGB devices to the sync group individually.

The Home button allows redirecting back to Home page, gaining access to quick link buttons below the products.The detected products that are available for configuration will be listed on the Home page.

All configurations of the supported and connected products will be listed in the device page.

By selecting the function tabs above, a list of products that are configurable and corresponding to the function will appear.

For example: After pressing Device button , you gain access to RGB Fusion for RGB peripherals, FAN Control for fan speed adjustments, and Sidekick for the monitors.

The Update Center will display the current detected version and if there are any updates available for BIOS, firmware, drivers, and software.

If there are available updates, the details will be displayed and can be directly installed with Update Center upon user consent.

For additional information regarding version, please refer to the release note or details button.

If all of your products are in the GCC support list, you can remove them first, and go to the GCC product page to download the latest version. Follow the installation guide and enjoy it.

If some of your products are in the GCC support list. You can direct download the latest GCC from the GCC landing page and follow the installation guide to install. After the installation, the supported products will show on the GCC. For the products that haven't be supported in GCC, please continue use the previous software.

GIGABYTE is one of the leading motherboard vendors in the world. However, it not only produces motherboards but also manufactures custom graphics cards and laptop computers. Its laptop products include the AORUS series, the AERO series, and the GIGABYTE Gaming series.

GIGABYTE App Center is the official software that helps you download the latest GIGABYTE drivers. This software supports Windows 10 and 11 64-bit and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. Here is the guide:

Step 1: Go to the GIGABYTE support utility page and download the GIGABYTE App Center and @BIOS tools. Then, @BIOS requires you to install APP Center first, so please install APP Center and @BIOS in order.

Step 2: Shut down your PC. Then, restart your PC and enter firmware. You should make sure the Intel Hyper-Threading technology is disabled in BIOS. After booting into Windows, you should close all applications and TSR (such as anti-virus programs) to avoid unexpected errors during the BIOS update process.

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Chipset drivers are important. My initial install was Ryzen 5 1600 on Gigabyte motherboard at a time when the BIOS only had four revisions and there was just one chipset driver. Now four years later Gigabyte's website lists three chipset driver downloads while AMD's website lists just one for the CPU.

I am puzzled by the chipset driver implementation. Is the chipset more of a motherboard component or a CPU-related component? which chipset driver should be installed when you have two available to choose. I would have thought the motherboard manufacturer because they need to support their product. AMD knows this but they release their own chipset driver for a reason. Please clarify.

Besides actual BIOS updates, using anything from the motherboard manufacturer's site is a last resort for me. Theoretically, they might fine tune things to better suit their hardware. But, my experience has been universally bad with that. Usually, they just stick unwanted stuff in there. I have no experience with laptops or highly proprietary pre-built machines, though (I build all my machines). In those cases, it might be better to go with the manufacturer's drivers. Also, sometimes there's no other source but the motherboard manufacturer (for instance, those BIOS updates for the board that I mentioned at the start and the Thunderbolt drivers for my Gigabyte motherboard are only available from Gigabyte).

The AMD CPU drivers aren't really drivers. It's just their Ryzen Master package (which is optional, but cool). Theoretically, those are available through the CPU driver downloads. But, I've found that the download is usually better updated at their Ryzen Master page:

In my case, with three prebuilt Dell machines, the OEM drivers are ancient as Dell does terribly in pushing updates for Chipset drivers and indeed BIOS so I have decided to use the AMD Chipset drivers. However, they are not necessarily optimised for those systems. Dell are still on Win 10 driver sets for my systems and I am running Win 11 22H2 so I can't wait for Dell to do something useful

Your post is what I did (before you posted) so it is good confirmation on my approach. With my situation, Gigabytes BIOS updates also had a prerequisite to be at a certain chipset version or greater so that their sequential BIOS updates would work. So where you did BIOS then chipset, I had do implement chipset then BIOS - I had 4 BIOS updates to apply since my 2019/March build.

Is this a prebuilt system by someone like Dell or HP? If not I would use chipset drivers from AMD. Typically chipset drivers from the motherboard product page are there just to give you some functionality and aren't catered specifically to your motherboard.

If for some reason there is incompatibility between chipset drivers and your specific setup I would then go back to the drivers on the motherboard support page, but I would only do this if I was certain the chipset drivers were at fault.

My PC is self built which eliminates one variable from the calculus. I would feel compelled to reconcile HP downloads with motherboard downloads with AMD downloads. I would agree with above posts that after the initial install (or product purchase) the manufacturers have very little incentive to keep current with updates. They would risk breaking something then supporting it. thank you for your input.

It's interesting that Gigabyte would specify a chipset version requirement for their BIOS updates. AFAIK, chipset drivers are OS specific. So, motherboard-level BIOS updates should never even be aware of those until the OS is booted. I'd assume that once the OS was booted up, if older chipset drivers saw stuff in a new BIOS they didn't understand, they'd just ignore it. Then, when those chipset drivers got updated in the OS, everything would be fine again. Maybe they're assuming updating from within the OS instead of from the BIOS, itself.

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