Cisco UCSC-C240-M3S UCS C240 M3S CTO BASE
Cisco C240 M3
22% below typical · Typically sells ~$90.00
Bare unit: the price reflects an empty chassis (no CPU/RAM)
🇺🇸 US · First seen 9 hours ago
100% · 8.6kPrice historyCisco C240 M3 · sold & asking medians from the daily index
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Installed Hardware
Barebones, ships without CPU, RAM, or drives.
- Condition
- Used
Needs ~$18.50 more to run
This listing is missing parts to be a bootable server. Estimated cost to add: 1 CPU ~$2.50 · 16 GB RAM ~$16.00.
All-in ≈ $88.49 (listing + parts). Estimate for a minimal config (1 CPU · 16 GB RAM · boot SSD) priced from typical used-market component costs, verify against this exact unit.
Upgrade Headroom
Platform: Cisco C240 M3 (M3)
- Form factor
- 2U rack
- CPU socket
- LGA2011 × 2
- RAM max
- 768 GB DDR3 · RDIMM, LRDIMM
- DIMM slots
- 24 (RDIMM, LRDIMM)
- Noise tier
- 4/5, Loud (55–65 dB)
- Idle power
- 110W · ~$116/yr · ~$347/3yr to run (idle @ )
- Fan control
- fair
- PCIe
- Gen 3 · 6 slots · 80 lanes
- AVX-512
- No
- IOMMU default
- Disabled (must enable for passthrough)
- Management
- CIMC
- Max PSU
- 1200W
- Released
- 2012
Fit Breakdown (Balanced lens)
Fit = suits your use case · Value = fit per dollar · Deal = price vs typical market.
Outlook · Vintage, Cheap but aging. Verify firmware, OS support, and running cost before buying.
Price context
At $69.99, this listing is 22% below the typical sold price (~$90.00), and 52% below the typical asking price (~$144.97 across 12 live C240 M3 listings). Sold = what it's worth; asking = what sellers want now (usually higher).
How we estimate the value (~$90.00 of parts)
| Chassis / base | $90.00 |
| Estimated component value | $90.00 |
Summed from used-market component prices (129% of the $69.99 asking price). A rough build-up, not the whole-unit sold price; (est.) marks an inferred part.