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human
no to literally EVERYTHING you just said. 

this is a perfect opportunity to use a soldering iron. clean the pads put flux on the pads, hold the cap in place with tweezers, put a small blob of solder on your tip, then simply tap the 12V side first, since it will have a drastically lower thermal mass than the GND side. once it's on, tap the gnd side and you are good. 

hot air is going to dump a bunch of unnecessary heat into the board, which for a person who does hot air rework for a living isn't a problem ,but for a home gamer, you risk overcooking your board. 

source: I do this for a living
gpt
Exactly, i do this shit for a living and every once in a while i got the airflow up just a little too much and blow a bunch of components off their pads. Fine tip soldering iron for sure, not those shitty 25w chisel tipped radio shack ones either