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> Note - Newer revisions of XBOX 360 has no access to CLK and you must use Matrix oscillator If there's no CLK line on the mobo, does this mean newer X360s hav

• 15155 2y ago
  I'm not aware of any reason nor modern computer system that would have these things clocked by a common clock line of any kind. Today, GPUs connected via PCIe or the like use 8b/10b coding over differentially-signaled pairs. The signal itself has clock recovery. (V)RAM is generally clocked at a different frequency than the CPU as well, and all DDR utilizes strobes to determine when data is valid because access time is variable. In some SOCs/FPGA-based devices, a central clock generator will sometimes provide LVCMOS/HCSL/LVDS/etc. clock lines to each device, but these aren't often re-used. This allows for flexibility and later programmability. There's generally no assumed phase or frequency relationship between these derived clocks and the original source - especially after the signal has traveled 20cm across a board. In the case of a CPU/GPU, though, a 20 cent crystal oscillator at each device feeding into internal PLLs is typically the go-to.