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How to confirm my CPU type and count in my G4?

About a year ago, during days of better health and all that, I purchased a Power Mac G4 from the shopgoodwill site. The machine was advertised as having a 733 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. This is what is printed on the specifications sticker on the back.

Now, after a long long long break, I pull out the machine and turn it on. It chimes and boots. To my surprise, it has a seemingly clean install of Leopard 10.5.8 and the System Profiler is telling me I have a Dual 1 GHz processor setup inside. I open up the machine to take a look inside and I see a large heat sink. that isn't shy to warm up.

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Did someone do a major hotrod upgrade here?

What is the best, most definitive method of identifying and confirming my CPU type without removing the CPU and/or the heat sink?

Thanks! :)
 
Boot into Open Firmware and get the cpu-version property?

Code:
0 > dev / ls 
FF828F80: /PowerPC,601@0
FF829878: /chosen@0
...

Code:
0 > dev @0  ok
0 > .properties 
name                    PowerPC,601
device_type             cpu
reg                     00000000  00000000 
cpu-version             80010303 
clock-frequency         2376FAC0 
timebase-frequency      00BEBC20

80010303 = PowerPC 7445 or 7455 v3.3 (Apollo 6)
https://gist.github.com/gnzlbg/f4ccfb304b97708c142fd7004df8c761
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/supporting-information/PPCPVR.pdf

Since you have a dual CPU, you should maybe see two CPUs in Open Firmware.
 
Looks like my original 1.0 GHz DP QS heat sink. The profiler isn't going to BS you unless there is some weird, 3rd party thing in there.
 
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