OEM and motherboard binding

[Prashanthrb]

I am supposed to take delivery of my new pc tomorrow which is a Ryzen processor. I have gone with Asus Prime x370 Pro. I am about to buy Windows 10 Home OEM key from amazon. I have very little understanding about OEM keys except that they are way cheaper and bound to one machine aka non transferable. My question is ..

1. What are they actually binded to? the core ? the motherboard ?

2. Will I still be able to use by re-installing with same key if i upgrade my BIOS, Motherboard, CPU Core ?

 

[johnnyq1233]

If I'm not mistaken.. they are tied to your hard drive. Win 7 was tied to the motherboard, but in any event you can just call the number and they'll fix it.

 

[das_stig]

Windows 10 allows for a lot of changes to the hardware before youhit problems.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change

 

[USAFRet]

I am supposed to take delivery of my new pc tomorrow which is a Ryzen processor. I have gone with Asus Prime x370 Pro. I am about to buy Windows 10 Home OEM key from amazon. I have very little understanding about OEM keys except that they are way cheaper and bound to one machine aka non transferable. My question is ..

1. What are they actually binded to? the core ? the motherboard ?

2. Will I still be able to use by re-installing with same key if i upgrade my BIOS, Motherboard, CPU Core ?

It is bound to the motherboard. However....you can link it to a Microsoft account, rather than to specific hardware.
Read and do this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3164428/windows-build-1607-activation.html