I have done many ATMega projects using 32MHz TTL clock oscillators and not found any heat problems, in fact not noticed and heat given off at all. I cant verify that any new microcontrollers still work as well since Microchip took over the AVR range and I believe they opened a new fabrication plant in Scandinavia and reduced some of the specs on devices from 20MHz down to 16MHz.. early 2017 from my memory anyway !