If your gonna do this you really should have better cooling then the stock heatsink.
yeah I only plan on doing this after I get water cooling for the card...won't be for another 3 weeks probably, but I want to have my info down long before then.

DONT USE A FREAKING RHEOSTAT. Use a 10K trimmer, jjust like every other mod. WTF is this rheostat stuff, you need at least a 15 turn cermet trimmer for this mod....
I was under the impression we were just talking about a 10k ohm variable resistor...which I hardly know anything about honestly.

Make sure before you turn the computer on you measure the resistance at the place with the white arrow to ground.
How do you measure it without power going through the card? I thought it had to have power going to it? I'm assuming when you say this I can put the hot lead from the multimeter on that solder point the white arrow is pointing at, and the black at a ground point and it'll read it even with no power or something?

Also in that blown up pic, are you just pointing out with the red arrow that that's where that solder point to the left leads to?

Just making sure I got it clear, I need to solder the wire to that solder point with the white arrow pointing to it, and not that tiny ass leg of that chip that has the red arrow pointing?