So when the GTX 1660 started to show its age—stuttering in Starfield , crashing in Alan Wake 2 —he didn’t save for an upgrade. He opened MSI Afterburner.
Leo backed up the original BIOS. Then he clicked “Flash.”
He disassembled The Mule that night. He found no blown caps, no burnt mosfets. Just a single, tiny crack in the corner of the GPU die itself, invisible unless you held it under a desk lamp at the right angle. The silicon had simply given up.