I have several Vostro 200 machines. i have upgraded several of them. The key is finding a faster chip that has the same bus speed and in this case it is 800 Mhz. I have replaced my original CPU's with E5700 which is a dual core 3.0 Ghz processor. Now you need to make sure you upgrade the bios to the latest first but once that is done, the E5700 will work fine. You can find them on Ebay for anywhere from 20 bucks to 65 bucks....used....rare to find a new one these days since that processor is no longer produced. But my machines really run great now. Also, max out your Ram memory when you upgrade, it makes a difference.
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