But it's tightly integrated with the CPU itself. The VRM dos nothing without the CPU saying so. Whatever voltage it requests, the VRM will comply. For a glorio

But it's tightly integrated with the CPU itself. The VRM dos nothing without the CPU saying so. Whatever voltage it requests, the VRM will comply. For a glorious short time with Haswell, the VRM was fully integrated onto the processor die. It led to increased heat, obviously, but if you properly cooled the processor, you could stop worrying about your VRM failing.