burned Burned chip above RGB header
It's most likely a transistor or mosfet, think of it like a very fast on/off switch ... I assume it's there to turn on and off thousands of times a second the electricity going to the strip, which results in your eyes thinking it's different brightness levels.
A broken transistor is either failed short or open - open means there's never gonna be electricity going to the header no matter what command the led controller sends ... failed short means it's stuck always on, which could result in the transistor overheating
Put your finger on top of it, if it's not very hot, then it should be safe to use the motherboard as is ... but you should send it to warranty eventually. You can safely put the finger on, you're dealing with 12v at most, so there's no risk of electric shock.
ps. looks like it's the transistor that controls the green, it sinks green color to ground ... so in theory if you use only colors that don't use green at all, you could continue to use the led strips safely.
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