Give your PCI-based Power Mac a much needed performance push with this economical G3 upgrade line. The PowerForce G3 is the most advanced CPU product available for these machines. Descended from the original PowerForce G3 introduced in 1997, the original PowerForce G3 includes either 512K or 1MB of backside cache running at half the CPU speed. The newly-introduced PowerForce G3 800 features an IBM 750FX (click here for technical specs on the 750FX chip) running at 800MHz with 512K of cache running at a blazing 800MHz. Its great performance at a very economical price. The vast majority of mainstream applications still do not take advantage of Altivec, and therefore having greater clock speed for tasks that are used most often will extend the life of these machines well into the future.

The PowerForce G3 is an evolutionary design, copyright 1999, the only second-generation G3 or processor card on the market today. It offers bus ratios of up to 10:1 on the PowerPC 750 G3 processors and up to 20:1 on the 750FX processors.