I don't think that is fair. Just because an intel chip will handle more heat doesn't really make it a better CPU. "better", IMO is tested in terms of what a processor needs in terms of power consumption, processes required while running and the necessary chipsets on the MB. AMD boards are always much cleaner and run faster and smoother with less crashing than an Intel in my experience. Yes, they run warmer, but that is the price you pay for performance, and hell...that's why they have water cooling.

Its not that Intel can handle more heat it just has thermal protection built into it.   I work on computers for a living and I can honestly say that 100% of the time when I work on an AMD computer that had a lousy ten dollar fan fail it cooked the motherboard and procesor too.  As far as crashing goes it is very rare to have hardware be a cause of a crash these days unles your using the cheapest crap out there.