Don't know the codes you posted but what you need is a Mobile Pentium 4-M CPU. A Mobile Pentium 4 will not work. If the CPU you are looking at is as I stated then it will work in the i8200

I see that you have a 2.4. Is that the fastest that I can put in?? If so, let me know where I can purchase one.

No the fastest is a 2.6 but it is very expensive. Almost double, if not more, than a 2.4. At least it was when I bought it. I got mine a Page comuters

www.pagecomputers.com

Just do a google search for Mobile pentium 4-M and you should find many links.

I paid just over $250 for mine with shipping but just after I bought mine the price went up at the same place I bought mine. In fact I had to email them and ask why they hadn't shipped the one I ordered. They honored the price I paid even though the price went up the day after i ordered. I ordered it on a Thursday night and when I check there site on friday the price had gone up by $10+.

Ed,
What CPU did you have prior to the 2.4?? I'm wondering if it really made much of a difference for you??

Thanks for the input! I was thinking the drive maybe the best bang for the buck like you said. Maybe I'll go that way for now.

You meant 5400 right?? I can't find any 7200 drives.

No I meant 7200 RPM drives. Hitachi make them and soon Seagate will be coming out with some models. Do a google search for 7K60 Hitachi notebook drives. There are 2 sizes, a 40GB for around 150+ and a 60GB for just over 200. Also there are to different models a 7K60 and a 7K60E. The E models are really made for blade servers but some on these forums have used that model in there notebooks with good results.

I had a 1.8 and yes it does make a difference but only when the system is under heavy load. Otherwise both the 1.8 and the 2.4 run at 1.2 speed. You can set the CPU to run at full speed all the time and see a big performance boost but that makes the system get hot fast and stay hot, which is not good for the longevity of the system. If I had it to do over I would of bought a 7200 RPM HDD and not upgraded the CPU. I also did a video card upgrade on the system from a NVidia 32MB card to a ATI 64MB card. I think I still would of done that upgrade. I noticed a overall boost in the system by doing the video card upgrade. I did the video card about 2-3 days before I got the 2.4 CPU so I could tell the difference in the vid upgrade with the old CPU.

All in all the system does run faster when doing CPU intensive work but in general, web surfing, word processing and the like, I really don't see that big of a boost with the faster CPU.