Some computers are ready for a new lease on life. Computer companies come out with new machines every year: faster, better, more powerful, more efficient, and sometimes even cheaper. But what do you ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

It's often advisable to reuse your old hardware in a new system, be it your CPU or another piece of kit, but sometimes this simply isn't possible. Whether you've broken a mounting pin or there's some ...

Fierce competition between Intel and AMD has pushed prices for many CPUs well below $100, making a processor upgrade more practical for older PCs. Three scenarios make a CPU upgrade worthwhile: Moving ...

Last September, Newegg began a program where you could exchange an older graphics card for a newly-purchased model from Newegg, and the retailer would toss in up to a few hundred bucks as store credit ...