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Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver


Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_1611103C&REV_06.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver


  1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver. The archive contains version 8.045.0311.2016 dated 2016-03-11 of the driver.
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  3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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  5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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  7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
Download size of the driver: 520768 bytes (508.56 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.4 stars by 16211 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

  • This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
  • This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
  • This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
  • This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits



2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver


The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

  1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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  3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller driver. Click on Update.
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  5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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