Having this new mill was going to prove invaluable for making the Radeon 9700 cooler, due to the more cluttered layout of the ATI card having components around the ram chips on the PCB, some of which protrude higher than the ram.....
I decided to tackle the hardest block first, this being the frontside ram block, needing to fit in an area most cluttered for surface mounted components, along with space allowance considerations for the VPU block, it wasn't going to be as easy as past block builds.