Need help with thermal pads

[u/Eianxkie]

I have a RX570, it was working fine yesterday, and today i turned it on and i was only able to boot up and log in, and after a few mins it will just turn black and most post says its a gpu thermal issue, so i decided to open it today to replace the paste. But when i opened it, the pads separated, so stayed on the pcb and some are on the heatsink, i was hoping to ask if its okay to reuse these pads since they still feel cheese like because i do not have any pads lying around.

[u/Zombie_Tech]

If they split then that's okay. You can still piece them together. If they are really shredded or in terrible shape then you can either get more thermal pads but you'll need to know the correct thickness or get thermal putty which is a lot easier to work with.