AMD's run a lot warmer than Intel as a rule and have a history of blowing up if not properly cooled. Intel on the other hand has built in thermal over heat protection. If it gets too hot it throttles back and if it continues to stay hot it will send a soft shut down command to the motherboard.
I build my own systems and I've had a couple of AMD based. After finding one of my AMD rigs sitting in a cloud of blue smoke from thermal runaway, I won't have another.
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