Antazone AS-C1000

"Make your Computer become Unique! The best partner of your Cool stuffs!" Well, alright, but how does it perform?

Antazone is a company never seen before in the pages of Atomic. However, it already follows the fine tradition of Taiwanese to English translation botch-ups when it comes to slogans. ‘Innovation your life’ it tells us. ‘We know what you want! Make your Computer become Unique! The best partner of your Cool stuffs!’

Well, good we got that sorted then.

If you’ve seen the press image floating around that makes out the AS-C1000 to be completely gold, let us tell you it’s not – the core is copper, with a hollow centre and radial fins joined from the inner circle to the outer. This is surrounded by a decidedly un-gold smoked plastic shroud. An 85mm Tek Chain A129525ML-F fan is attached to the front, also made of the aforementioned smoked plastic.

The 2200RPM fan blows inwards against the core, creating a wind tunnel that’s pushed through and out the other side. It’s by no means silent, yet it doesn’t cross the threshold of annoyance either. Two heatpipes connect to the die slug on one side, one to the other, with all of them rapping around the circumference of the sink.

Regardless of socket, to mount it you’ll need to remove the existing backplate and/or bracket from your motherboard, then attach Antazone’s cross shaped one, thread through some bolts and secure the heatsink down to them using yet another cross shaped bracket.

Thumping it on to Chernobyl, our calefacient calamity, we whacked it up to the default 80W. Sadly it pulled an uninspiring 54°C in an ambient temperature of 27°C, relegating it to the world of merely ‘adequate’. Which in Atomic speak means ‘bad’.

We think Antazone could probably do with a little more practice, learning what we want before it becomes the best partner of our cool stuffs.