Hi there ,
As the title says ive had this happen to my gpu yesterday out of no where a spark and smoke with general panic from me turning the pc off ASAP ,
Upon taking out the card i also noticed it had damaged my motherboard  as you can see in the picture its burnt the casing , 
I call EVGA this morning first thing they say is no warrenty which for such a hardware failiure under uk law seems strange so they asked me to take pictures and report the issue  here is also a picture of the blown r33 caps , 
Extremely disheartned so far as to how dismissive they were on the phone before even hearing the issue , 
Posting here for advice etc 
 
 
 
 
Cheers 
 
Phix

Cool GTX
Loosing an expensive part of a PC is usually very sudden.
 
since you asked for Advice:
 
Keep all parts, till you have exhausted your request or found common ground on a resolution
 
The Mfg of any component would need to understand root cause & will of course follow their published Warranty Terms
 
Was the Inductor the "cause" or the "outward symptom" --- that is the question
 
Its complicated to find root cause:  MB, Settings, PSU, GPU & other components may have played a roll in this.
 
It reminds me of the 5960X CPUs Killed in Asus MB a few years ago.  The long investigation ended up as a combination of issues, mostly the PSU as I recall, along with some BIOS settings / programing on Asus's part
 
Keep us posted
 
 

Aye thats what im intending to do as shouting will not help anyone in this instance it happens but in such a way ive never had in 30 years of gaming ><

Crazy thing is 2 years i've had it so what the caps have a 2 year shelf life ? i have never had anything of the sort happen .
I am crossing my fingers that EVGA can help me with this before i consider other avenues 

Quick update for visibility Ant from EVGA has been dealing with me thus far no acceptence of fault and looking like no replacement which i can chase through uk trade law if i have to  

That is essentially what they are looking at trying to do as they have got Markus involved whos senior it or some such , 
 I can chase this via uk trading standards as here we have 6 years by law to claim on a faulty product , will keep updated 

Three weeks ago my EVGA 980ti Hybrid burned out the same way yours did. I just recently shipped it back. Lucky me I had 5 months warranty left. EVGA makes garbage video cards not worth my money. I made a long post in here. They use cheap components in their card which is why they had such massive problems with their 1000 series. Stay clear of their products. This was my first and last EVGA product.
 
Good luck with your fight. Good to see another customer fighting EVGA instead of rolling over and doing what the EVGA supporters on here suggest "just buy another card". Closing our wallets will force EVGA to stop cost cutting and making lemons so hopefully in the future others won't have to go through this.

you know when the 900 series first came out , and things as this was said  may of been the clue on what you were really getting into  with them
 
If you've already worked your way though our GTX 980 review, then you'll know that unlike that card, Nvidia is not producing a reference model of the GTX 970, the second enthusiast-grade Maxwell part that replaces the GTX 770 in the product stack. The images on this page do not reflect a ready to buy product. Instead, Nvidia's AICs will be able to purchase the GPU and memory chips, but after that it's up to them, and this will undoubtedly lead to a high degree of variability when it comes to PCB and cooler design as well as factory overclocks.  [bit-tech.net]
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Furthermore, as we mentioned in our GTX 980 review, GTX 970 has been a pure virtual (no reference card) launch, which means all of NVIDIA’s partners are launching their custom cards right out of the gate. A lot of these have been recycled or otherwise only slightly modified GTX 700/600 series designs, owing to the fact that GM204’s memory bus has been held at 256-bits and its power requirements are so low. [Anandtech .com]
 
 
maybe them recycled 700 series parts used was not up to  snuff with the 900 Maxwell chips at power ?
 
but still I got one  when the 10 series released  and they fell short on support  / of fully supporting my needs  . I just could not see spending extra money on a 10 series to support it  when the 900 did all ouit of the box at its price..
 
 
iwas going with a MSI but the day I went to buy this evga went on a heck of a sale so it went in to the cart instead of that MSI  980ti .    I don't guess I see there cards  ''burning up '' and all as your now seeing with these evga's ??
 
 

lot of kingpin guys here as well  awhile back  with failed or failing .
 
I got the 980ti hybrid as well  . luckily so far still doing good [knock on wood]  likei say I still got to wonder how long or each time I now fire up with it  with all this your seeing