Shutdown then pop and spark, capacitor on gpu is loose. Should I be worried?

Hardware GPU
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I was playing hl2 with the fakefactory cinematic mod, when out of nowhere Windows shutdown and I heard a loud pop followed by a single spark, I immediately unplugged the computer and began testing each component on another computer, thankfully my hdd was fine, but when I went to test the gpu (r9 290x) I decided to remove the heatsink to see if anything looked out of place; I found this..

should I be worried?
Should I try to replace it?

EDIT: I took a chance and put the card in after buying a new psu; the computer booted fine and everything seemed to be how it was before hand. (apart from my eyefinity profile for some reason)

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Your GPU should be under warranty still if it is a 290X unless you picked it up secondhand. That is what I would recommend.

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Yes, that is a blown cap. You could replace it with one of similar voltage / cap rating.
However, as is always the case with circuits that fail... the failure is never just a single component. The component you noticed prolly failed because some other component failed... etc.

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