Driver updates from vendors or Apple?

Hello! quick question... I am running bootcamp 4, and Win7 is alerting me there is a newer driver available for the video card on my MBPr. Is it reccomended to only use the "Windows Support" download file from apple when updating windows drivers? Or can a user safely utilize a vendor-direct driver update?
Thanks
Craig

The graphic card driver that Boot Camp includes is very old, and it's recommended to use the driver that the vendor provides, in your case, from NVIDIA. You can get the most recent NVIDIA driver from the NVIDIA website > http://www.nvidia.com This is important in order to get the maximum performance of your graphic card

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I just do this update from MS.
nVidia - Network - NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
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