If replacing the capacitors costs too much, I won't even mess with it. It has taught me to really dislike small form factors, although it's over-heating problems are my fault. But I would think larger cases would have less trouble with heat build-up. Not much room to work in there, anyway.
The "guy I know" who might wield the solder gun for me is my Dad, professional auto mechanic. I doubt he's ever worked on a motherboard, but it certainly would not be his first time working with solder. I don't know if that's enough "experience and tools" to do the job. Then again, this motherboard might be good practice for one of us.
Motherboard info:
Gigabyte P4 Titan
GA-8SLML
SiS 650GL chipset
2002 vintage
I have the manual, utility CD, box, etc, for the motherboard. The (poorly-translated) manual says:
Socket 478 for Intel Micro FC-PGA2 Pentium 4 processor
Supports Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood, 0.13 ~m) processor
Intel Pentium 4 FSB 400MHz
I have tried to look it up on Gigabyte's website, but they don't even list it, even under "legacy." Too old, maybe?
Edit: It's currently using a Celeron, 1.7 GHz.