Where to acquire S3 Chrome 540 GTX?

As the title suggests, I am looking for the now very rare S3 Chrome 540 GTX, I cannot find it anywhere, on eBay nor Aliexpress.

If you have any idea where I can acquire this card it would be helpful as I am trying to build a non-American silicon desktop PC.
You may ask why, and the reason is just because I can. These cards used to be really good ones back in the day but my old one broke.

 

Good luck finding outdated hardware that is no longer used. If you can't find it on eBay consider it dead hardware. If anything eBay would be the last resort for finding anything that one wouldn't think to find elsewhere. Regardless whether you can build it or not is besides the point - outdated hardware will be become dust and finding it will come with a price if it even exists anymore and it won't be cheap either. So your ending remarks makes unreasonable demands and doesn't see reality - no one is going to sell you outdated hardware for the cheap if they know you want it that badly they will charge a arm and leg to sell it. And even they you get no warranty or option to test it as it is so old they most likely won't accept returns on it.

 

I do not really get your juice with me but all I asked for is if anyone know or sell this specific card, whether its obsolete or not is not related to anything.
My old one broke, and now I am looking for a new one for my personal hobby, if having a hobby is illegal nowadays then Goddamn, I thought 1945 was over a long time ago.

 

Hyperbole aside, Strom has a point in that it will be nearly impossible to find that specific, old card, especially in working order. Also, given how current PCIe cards are backwards compatible with older PCIe slots (nevermind better performance, power efficiency, and costs), why not get a modern or modern-ish card?

 

Do you have any modern non-American silicon GPU's for me? If so I be happy to obtain those instead.

 

Most electronics these days (including GPUs) are made in China/Taiwan.

 

I know, but the S3 Chrome 540 is designed by VIA in Taiwan at the time, my goal is to make a non-American silicon computer, that has no American designed stuff in it, that includes the GPU.
So far I managed to acquire very hard to get Chinese x86 processors 8 core.

 

That's a rather weird hobby, but okay. Maybe look into Chinese-based brands that don't do any contract work with American companies? Good luck on that though.

 

Hey, everyone has to have a hobby mine just happen to be acquiring strange computer parts.
I only know of S3 Graphics, Matrox Graphics and Imagination Technologies that does PCI GPU's

 

Well, LTT did a video recently of odd GPUs, which all seem to be from Chinese companies and not sold in NA:



Silicon is silicon though, so they're not really all that different from normal nVidia GPUs.

 

Yup I have seen those, but nVidia and AMD are still designed in America despite being made in Taiwan for example.
ATi used to be Canadian before AMD bought them.

And the Polaris architecture is designed by AMD Shanghai.

 

Not sure what to tell you then. The only three major players in desktop/laptop graphics are AMD, Intel, and nVidia (all US based companies). Also, you're going to have a lot of issues with a x86-based CPU, since that's AMD and Intel as well. Same with most motherboards you'll see (most BIOS software is American).

So all I can really think is that you either have to abandon the x86 platform or perhaps just buy a GPU that meets your other specs (price, performance, etc).

 

Do not worry I have sourced Zhaoxin newest lineup to be released later this year and acquired a VIA QuadCore C4650 processor, I just need the GPU now.

 

Dayum! How the hell did you manage to find this gem? Not even me in Hong Kong can find one... well except in VIA's site which they're gonna charge considerable sum of money.

And for the graphics card, even the "Chinese Amazon" has ONE listing for an S3 card, and it's an antique S3 DeltaChrome AGP.

 

I watch on eBay and Aliexpress and I found a motherboard with it integrated on eBay out of pure luck, the VIA QuadCore is indeed a rarity but you need to search for motherboard who has them, none of the newer VIA processors are socketed, they are BGA.

The one I got was relative cheap, most of them are pretty high priced.
Lenovo will ship computers in China with the Zhaoxin next year and to other third world markets.

 

Thanks for the heads up

By the way, last night I searched for VIA stuff in the "Chinese Amazon" and found some mATX mobos with a single core Nano (U2257), apparently taken from low-power HP desktops. It's so cheap (around US$7-8 for the board + backplate) that I wanna buy one just for ****s and giggles, then build a WTF desktop with it

 

I know the VIA Nano ones are terribly slow, I been looking for a VIA C7 on Intel Socket 479 for a while now to test in my IBM ThinkPad T42p.

I looked on eBay, Aliexpress and Taobao but only Taobao has a good selection however description is so bad I have a hard time seeing what is socketed or what is BGA.

 

While VIA Nano is not a great-performing chip, it still handily beats the original Atom. The C7 though

Over years I've collected lots of thin clients, some with VIA chips from different eras. Those with C3 or C7 are just bad performers (especially in Windows 7), but of course they're still better than Transmeta and Geode.

Then I've also refurbished an HP Mini-Note 2133 (with C7-M 1.6GHz, the fastest one available) before, better than thin clients but still struggles a bit in web browsing.

P.S. If you want to find a Socket 479 C7, look for those with numbers instead of frequencies, such as C7-M 754, this is rather common. The list is here