I do not agree with the idea that Prime can wear out a processor in a matter of days. If on average Prime is twice as stressful as the most stressing game, you telling me that 100 hours or so of gaming would degrade your CPU to wher it is noticable. On my Opteron 146 I ran about 50 hours of Prime and few 1000 hours worth of games and it was just as stable as when I got it.