Question Which intel items should be deleted???

ingeborgdot

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I have an AMD mobod an a Ryzen CPU. I did not get all of the intel products uninstalled it looks like before I switched over. The only intel part that this has is the nic card. Here are the intel drivers and software still installed.
Intel Control center
Intel Graphics Driver
Intel management engine components
Intel SDK for openCL - CPU only runtime package
Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Control Driver
Which ones stay, which ones go? Please only reply if you know for sure. Thanks so much for your generous help
 

damian101

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All of these can be uninstalled, they don't serve any purpose on your current hardware.
 

ingeborgdot

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Even the Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Control Driver ? Thanks for your quick response. I appreciate it so very much. You are very kind.
 

damian101

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Even the Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Control Driver ? Thanks for your quick response. I appreciate it so very much. You are very kind.
That driver is only for the USB ports of on Intel chipset.
It's generally very unproblematic to uninstall devices and delete the drivers nowadays, most hardware works without problems with Microsoft's universal drivers, and the correct driver are normally automatically installed through Windows Update. I personally never download drivers from the motherboard manufacturer anymore, unless something doesn't work. The graphics driver is the only driver I download, because running the outdated version that Windows installs can result in lower graphics performance.