DELL PowerEdge R540 12x 3.5" Bays Server Chassis Backplane FAN N74R6 HF8NK PT9X1
Dell R540
$139.88Free shipping (to US)
Fit —Value —
🇺🇸 US · First seen 2 days ago
100% · 11kInstalled Hardware
- Drive bays
- 12× LFF (accepts SFF)Backplane: SAS 12G/SATA
- Condition
- Open box
Upgrade Headroom
Drives12 drive bays
CPU2-socket platform
Platform: Dell R540 (G14)
- Form factor
- 2U rack
- CPU socket
- LGA3647 × 2
- RAM max
- 1024 GB DDR4 · RDIMM, LRDIMM
- DIMM slots
- 16 (RDIMM, LRDIMM)
- Noise tier
- 3/5, Moderate (45–55 dB)
- Idle power
- 75W · ~$79/yr · ~$237/3yr to run (idle @ )
- Fan control
- good
- PCIe
- Gen 3 · 3 slots · 48 lanes
- AVX-512
- Yes
- IOMMU default
- Disabled (must enable for passthrough)
- Management
- iDRAC 9
- Max PSU
- 750W
- Released
- 2018
Fit Breakdown (Balanced lens)
Cores
50
RAM
50
Storage
50
Deal:No estimate available
Fit = suits your use case · Value = fit per dollar · Deal = price vs typical market.
Outlook · Late life, Near the price floor. Weigh idle power draw and parts availability.
Price context
At $139.88, this listing is — no sold comps yet —, and 96% below the typical asking price (~$3,208.45 across 10 live R540 listings). Sold = what it's worth; asking = what sellers want now (usually higher).
How we estimate the value (~$570.00 of parts)
| Chassis / base | $480.00 |
| CPU ×2 silver-4215 (est.) | $90.00 |
| Estimated component value | $570.00 |
Summed from used-market component prices (407% of the $139.88 asking price). A rough build-up, not the whole-unit sold price; (est.) marks an inferred part.