The solder on the resistor to the right was an accident after I cleaned everything up, it never touched anything else, though.

I never cleaned the board, but the soldering iron was clean. I'm sure the soldering iron wasn't on too long, I added a small drop of solder to the tip of the wire, then held it in place and heated it until the solder melted.

Yeah, the 700 ohms was when it was all in place. What do you mean by the whole circuit? A vGPU point to ground, or..?

I did the opposite you did, clockwise = more resistance, and since I used a 1kohm VR, I decided to start at ~700 because of the previous BIOS vmod. Never really got a chance to play with the voltage, though