Determining the CPU clock speed on a Power Mac G3?

[meekrospom]

Greetings all. I'm a brand new owner of a Power Mac G3 B&W, as well as being new to the world of Power PC in general. I bought said machine from a buddy of mine last week, and it seems to be in fairly good condition from what I could tell. I installed the 2013 compilation of Mac OS 9.2.2, and most aspects of the machine were apparent at a glance, like the quantity of RAM, the size of the HDD's, etc. However, I am completely dumbfounded as to how I can ascertain the clock speed.

The "About This Computer" menu did not provide any relevant information, so I installed a couple different versions of Gauge Pro to get some readings, but it can't even identify my CPU? It shows up as blank, which makes no sense. I tried both of the versions that Macintosh Repository provides, but neither of them did the trick. I googled around for a while as well as searching this forum in particular, but I just can't find anything at all. I'm not at all a Mac expert if you couldn't tell, as this the first Mac desktop I've ever owned.

All in all, this is a pretty minor issue and I'm fairly sure that I'm missing something that's completely obvious, so feel free to call me a dumb ass or whatever other expletive strikes your fancy.

 

[LightBulbFun]

Greetings all. I'm a brand new owner of a Power Mac G3 B&W, as well as being new to the world of Power PC in general. I bought said machine from a buddy of mine last week, and it seems to be in fairly good condition from what I could tell. I installed the 2013 compilation of Mac OS 9.2.2, and most aspects of the machine were apparent at a glance, like the quantity of RAM, the size of the HDD's, etc. However, I am completely dumbfounded as to how I can ascertain the clock speed.

The "About This Computer" menu did not provide any relevant information, so I installed a couple different versions of Gauge Pro to get some readings, but it can't even identify my CPU? It shows up as blank, which makes no sense. I tried both of the versions that Macintosh Repository provides, but neither of them did the trick. I googled around for a while as well as searching this forum in particular, but I just can't find anything at all. I'm not at all a Mac expert if you couldn't tell, as this the first Mac desktop I've ever owned.

All in all, this is a pretty minor issue and I'm fairly sure that I'm missing something that's completely obvious, so feel free to call me a dumb ass or whatever other expletive strikes your fancy.

if you look on the back of the machine, around where ya plug in the mains power lead, will be a sticker, this sticker will list the orignial factory specs of your machine

and then in Mac OS, if you click on the Apple logo, in the drop down menu should be an item called "System Profiler"

this will list detailed information about your machine and the hardware contained within including CPU type and speed

are you using Gauge Pro 1.1? I use it quite extensively, and its good for IDing all PowerPC's up to and including the G4 7410

anything beyond that like the 7450/7455 based Sonnet upgrades and 750FX/750GX PowerLogix upgrades will require their respective utilities to ID properly

(Sonnet Metronome and PowerLoigx CPU Director, both of these utilities will work to ID stock/lesser upgrades as well)

hope this helps

 

[meekrospom]

if you look on the back of the machine, around where ya plug in the mains power lead, will be a sticker, this sticker will list the orignial factory specs of your machine

and then in Mac OS, if you click on the Apple logo, in the drop down menu should be an item called "System Profiler"

this will list detailed information about your machine and the hardware contained within including CPU type and speed

are you using Gauge Pro 1.1? I use it quite extensively, and its good for IDing all PowerPC's up to and including the G4 7410

anything beyond that like the 7450/7455 based Sonnet upgrades and 750FX/750GX PowerLogix upgrades will require their respective utilities to ID properly

(Sonnet Metronome and PowerLoigx CPU Director, both of these utilities will work to ID stock/lesser upgrades as well)

hope this helps

Thank you! I can't believe I missed the specs sticker on the back of the machine. It will definitely make the prospect of upgrading this machine a lot easier now.