RMA full description

Oh my, such a small text box! Anyways, last night I got home and turned on my PC to do some homework and did that for roughly 2 hours, so you can say that my PC and the card were powered off for ~5 hours and then running under almost zero load for ~2 hours. After that, I started up battlefield 4 and was playing for maybe 30 or 45 minutes when I saw a flash of light. I assumed it was from the game due to in game gunfire but then maybe less than a quarter of a second later I see another flash of light but noticed it was way too bright for my monitor to make since it was nearly my entire room that was hit with light. There was also some sizzling I heard when I saw the second flash, I don't know if there was a sizzle noise during the first flash since there was too much in game noise.

Then in maybe another quarter of a second if not immediately, my PC shuts down and I get this strong odor of something burning. I look down into my case and see what appeared to be either something glowing on the graphics card or residual flames from the card. I couldn't tell which because I was immediately going to the power plug to my desktop and pulling that out along with turning off the power strip everything else was plugged in to prevent anything else from happening.

Once I took the card out, I saw what appears to be two ceramic capacitors burned out. I would tell you the component designators but they have been charred away. Since I don't have access to the top layer of the board due to how you guys assembled it, I can't say what or even if there is damage to the top layer of the card. Glancing at it from the side through the heatsink does not show any damage to the top of the board from what I see though.

The graphic card has been neither overvolted, undervolted, nor overclocked. The environment it was in was not hostile since this card was used for the gaming I got to do after class and some rare video encoding in a computer case properly screwed in.

Specs of the computer:
Z77 Mpower motherboard
I5-3570k Intel CPU
Crossair TX750 V2 PSU

I have also just checked the PCI-E slots on my motherboard with another graphics card and everything seems to be working fine, showing that luckily all damage was contained within the 7950.