Carbonaut on GPU?

[MotokoHammond]

Hello there, so I recently swapped over my CPU to a Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut thermal pad rather then using thermal paste/grease. I have an old RX550 which I am planning to use for my home theater pc, however the thermal paste dired up year's back. I was wondering if it is possible to put a graphite thermal cooling pad on a GPU dye instead of paste? It would save a whole heap of time and effort if I could replace the paste with a pad considering the life span of the pad. However considering a GPU has the bare dye without the heatspreader on top, I wondered if there would be some issue in doing this? Obviously it may require cutting the Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut down to size to stop overhang, but aslong as the pad is not hitting the PCB it should be fine right?

[MotokoHammond]

Has nobody really done this to know?

[bmx6454]

i haven't personally used them, thermal paste is still preferable imo, but you can use it on a gpu instead of thermal paste. as you mentioned, you would want to cut them to the size of the die. i believe those pads are conductive, so i would be careful with the placement.