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Originally posted by nicozeg
Great work! 
It seems that you’re going to mount it diagonally? It would be wise.
I made a mini block some time ago, and one problem that showed the design was that the base didn’t touched the cpu pads. It was difficult to hold in place when mounting, and risked some damage to the core during the process. Never realized before that the usefulness of those little rubber foams.
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I've ran into the mini-block problem before to.....even burnt up a chip due to misalignment of the core to the blocks base. I've since taken to putting the old foam pads from a AMD chip I killed on any new proccessor I install. Even if its a full size block,that extra cushion is a real chip-saver.
Take a single -edge razor and gently slice the pad from the surface,making sure you get the little plastic adhesive disc from the bottom of the pad.You can also do this with the factory foam pads,just lift them off and move them wherever you need them .