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• Microsoft driver bug saps Core Duo power*
  Saturday 28 January 2006 – 03:44
  Connect any USB 2.0 device to your notebook and lose more than one hour of battery time: Tom's Hardware Guide's tests of a Windows-based Intel Core Duo mobile processor platform revealed a serious power consumption issue that, according to Intel, is caused by a Microsoft driver bug - a bug that has been known by Microsoft for some time, but kept from the public eye until today.
• Tom's Ultimate RAM Speed Tests*
  Wednesday 9 April 2008 – 06:40 in Hardware
  We compare all popular DDR2 and DDR3 speeds on both a fast Core 2 Duo and an older Pentium 4 single core. The big question is a simple one: what memory speed do you really need?
• Tom's Socket AM2 Motherboard Summer Slam*
  Tuesday 19 September 2006 – 01:19
  The wow factor plays a big part in the latest crop of premium feature-packed AM2 boards. We look at eight of the hottest.