 Our hobby isn't exactly the best for the environment. A lot of our products generate e-waste. Today's coveted graphics card is Tomorrow's Trash. Fortunately, some people are looking into how we can reduce our impact on the environment. One way is using second-hand parts. And Hardware Sugar does keep a list of second-hand items that we're selling. Another way is by reducing the actual waste of the items. Enter StriaCom's TX-13 thermal paste, which was designed with zero waste in mind. You should know that the brand sent us this item for review, but had no say in what we had to say about it. I'm not really that busy. I just need windows. But where can I get windows? A lot of options, a lot of prices. Ah, here it is. Goodie na lang, may cdkeyovers.com Search for the software you need. Add to cart. Daan ka sa payment option nila. Wala pag 5 minutes. Finished. May legit, working cdkey ka na para sa windows mo. Gamitan ng aming code para makakuhapan ng discounts. Kaya kung nagahalap ka ng legit, mura at original software. Check out cdkeyovers.com But really, how much waste can thermal paste actually generate? Actually quite a lot. There's the cardboard, there's the tube that the TP comes in, there's the foil and whatnot. There's the actual thermal paste itself, which a lot of us don't really use. So we're given too much of it when we purchase. The excess stuff builds up, but the TX-13 doesn't have that problem. Everything has been stripped down to the bare minimum. It comes in a recycled cardboard sleeve and there are five sachets inside. And for every purchase of the TX-13, Stryocom sponsors tree planting. So on environmental front, the TX-13 is pretty good. It's the paste itself any good. We tried it on four different coolers, including my personal rig, which is an R73700X with a Kraken X53. So I've been using it for more than a month now and temps have been pretty good. And the CPU has been fine. Tempts are around mid-fifties, even on load. The highest it's gone is maybe the occasional above 60. We also stress tested the TX-13 with the i9-12900K. So we used three different coolers with that furnace of a CPU. As a baseline for the extreme test, we used a Kraken Z73, which is a 360mm AIO. And we used the stock paste of the Z73 because we wanted to compare it to the performance of the TX-13. So for the performance test, we ran Cinebench R23 for 30 minutes and recorded the max temperature reached per AIO. The Kraken Z73 hit a maximum temp of 95 degrees. The other AIO that we tried was the MSI Meg Core Liquid 360. That was using a TX-13 and it hit a maximum temperature of 97 degrees. Now, this is a very extreme test. The i9-12900KF is not a beast that you'll see often in the wild, let alone being asked to run at maximum speed for 30 minutes. You can see, though, that the performance of the TX-13 is very close to the baseline that we set with the Kraken Z73. So its performance was quite in the ballpark that we would expect even in a performance setting. Interestingly, we actually tried another cooler, a deep cool AIO also with a 360mm rad and we got even better cooling. This was also using the TX-13 as the paste. However, we can't share that cooler yet because it's on embargo, but if you're curious, check out our review coming out May 25. Bottom line is the TX-13 good for the environment and isn't a good thermal paste. For the environment, yes, definitely. Actually, the design of the TX-13 really opened my eyes to how much waste was involved in a simple product like thermal paste. And the TX-13 has really stripped that all down to the bare minimum. Performance wise, yes, actually I'm quite satisfied. I have not replaced the TX-13 on my personal rig. For performance folks, don't worry. The TX-13 will deliver the cool. We're giving this guy 4.5 candies out of 5. If you're interested in more thermal paste stuff, we do have a thermal paste roundup of 5 very cheap thermal pastes or a shootout between 6 premium types of thermal pastes. So those are two different videos linked in the description below and above. TFW. And check back May 25 for our review of that mysterious deep cool AIO. And thank you to our top fans na affordo namin to kupuwa na to and edyok lang. Thank you to Leah Magnaya, Ian Meru, ITX-Addict, John Ruben Ocha, Christian Espinoza, and Raphael James. Thank you for supporting the channel.