Knowing the motherboard’s model and serial number can be beneficial while searching for BIOS firmware updates from the manufacturer’s support site. A product’s serial number enables the manufacturer ...

We’re no stranger to homemade CPUs on these pages, but we think that [Jiri Stepanovsky]’s 16-bit serial CPU might be a little special. Why? It has an astonishingly low chip count, with only 8 ICs in ...

this may be a dumb question, but how does windows recognize my PC? MAC addresses on networking hardware? I thought they were no longer getting access to the CPU serial number or other stuff like that?