OCZ Technology announced a pretty interesting product called OCZ P4 Eliminator. The latter is a heatsink made of 100% Skived Copper that allows to cool down Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 CPUs without a fan! Thanks to 39 Fins 0.55mm thick each, the system can be cooled with an ordinary PSU fan (see the picture here). According to OCZ Technology, this system will be sufficient even for the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 chips that are going to heat pretty well so to speak.

Of course, to have a powerful and fan-less system is a dream of almost every computer user. However, I should aware you that Intel specifies typical thermal design power, usually about 25% less than maximum power that can be dissipated by the CPU. Moreover, unlike Athlon XPs, the Pentium 4 processors do not freeze when they overheat, they just start to slow down the speed of processing. Hence, those, who do not cool their Pentium 4 properly will probably get a slow system. In case he or she is not familiar with the nature of pretty strange behavior of the system, CPU or mainboard manufacturers will be blamed in poor performance, but not the cooling solution. The same may happen to the OCZ P4 Eliminator if it is not able to cool down the Pentium 4 3.06GHz beast, when it renders a frame in 3ds max.

Pricing and availability timeframe of the novelty were not touched upon.