<< the northwood was available at googlegear for $679 oem. I checked it out, and it's apparantly true. A 2.2 gigahurtz cpu with 512k cache. >>
Add an Asus P4B266 motherboard and a Mushkin 512MB Special CL2 DDR RAM and run it at 133 FSB CPU and memory, you can upgrade to a super 2.8GHz system for less than $1000 now.