I have upgraded all of that but the video card already!! That is why I do not plan on getting rid of it any time soon!!!

Ironically the video card upgrade would have given you more of a performance than the other 3 parts combined

If your talking about speedswitch xp v1.2 I run that also. Its never given me a problem on 3d mark because of it. Surely there are some old scores you can post at least. I have some 2, and 3 years old on there. lol Im just curious to drivers, and such, and would like to do a comparison to see where I can improve things. I use my 8200 about 12 to 14 hours per day also btw, so Im pretty intune with it. Ive had it over a year or so now. Its my workhorse. Have 2 other desktops, but use this way more.

Well I did upgrade the the vidoe from a gforce 440go 32 meg to the 9000. also I will look on madonions site and post a link. Speed switch, thats it I have it set at dynamic switching. I did take some screen shots of the last run I did. If you want them can email them to you.

DELL-MACHINA, Not when you work alot in photoshop! I needed the memory and harddrive speed more than the video card.... Although it might have helped! The CPU was too good a deal to pass up at the time so I got it!

Well ideally video card upgrading constitutes you wanting uber gaming performance

i had a i8200 with 2.5ghzp4-m 1024mb ram, quadro4 700, 7k60 and my machine was still only pulling a little over 10000 in 3dmark01. i toasted the card though but it didnt matter since i had gotten it for free. 10000 is ok but for me to justify the cost of it.

My results with an overclocked 2,4GHz P4-mobile at:

2,54GHz and Gogl 700 @ 277/572 MHz: >12000 Points in 3DMark2001. This adjustment is ABSOLUTELY STABLE!

2,64GHz and Gogl 700 @ 290/580 MHz: >12500 Points in 3DMark2001. This adjustment is stable for one cycle 3DMark. Then the components get too hot...
Moreover the soundcard won´t function any more because of too high fsb!

But i think very good results for a over 2 years old laptop!
Juergen

Say no to overclocking!

You all seem to know how to take your 8200's apart and upgrade parts, can someone point me to some kind of step by step tutorial on this subject as i am looking to upgrade my 8200............a tutorial with pictures would be preferred of course. thanks guys

register on the DCSE site and they have good teardowns.

dcse.dell.com

To diesel:
refer to www.dell.com
There is the possibility to download "replacing parts" or so... Thats the tutorial you are looking for...

Is it fairly easy to change the video card on an Inspiron 8200? I didn't know you could change the cpu as well... I always thought everything was soldered to the mother board. Silly me.