My Athlon has been going for over 8 year's hard with a year solid of a software acceleration program (Xspeed) running at 42x normal speed throughout it and my Phenom is left on 24/7 literally for 3 years now. I OC'd that Phenom and ranked 127th in the world for overclocking on HWbot. Your argument is invalid.
P.S - My i7 chew's through hardware. So far it's killed 16Gb of RAM, 2 PSU's, a graphics card and 3 hard drives and I've had it for a year.