The drivers that come with the OS were current when XP was put together, but there may be updated drivers from the manufacturer.  How much of an advantage new drivers provide is very subjective, but the latest drivers from the manufacturer will undoubtedly be more current than the drivers that came with XP unless there have been no updates.

>Hi all,
>This may open a can of worms, but it is a legitimate question that I have
>been pondering. I recently upgraded my motherboard, processor, sound card,
>and video card. I reused my SCSI cards, hard drives, and NIC. I did a clean
>install of XP Pro full OEM. Upon getting the OS installed as I usually do I
>went to Device Manager and the only thing that was incorrect was the SB
>Audigy. No surprise, installed the driver and update from Creative and no
>negative marks in Device Manager. Now for the question. Is there any
>advantage to using drivers from manufacturers vs. the drivers that were in
>XP? I read all the time about "Detonator"? drivers for Gforce cards. Drivers
>for NIC? Some times the old saw "if it works don't fix it" applies, but then
>again don't we love to tweak and mess with our machines to eek out a modicum
>of additional performance?
>
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