Dell PowerEdge R640 8SFF Barebone M/B Backplane 2xHeatsink 2xPSU No CPU/RAM/HDD
Dell R640
76% below typical · Typically sells ~$758.07
Bare unit: the price reflects an empty chassis (no CPU/RAM)
🇺🇸 US · First seen 10 days ago
100% · 22kSold Dell R640 prices ↓ 16% over the past ~3 mo.
Comparable sold · 44 sales · last 90 days
Median $601.95 · range $301.11–$1,148.76
This listing is 70% below the median sold.
Sold prices are the basis for the deal score. Asking prices typically run above what listings actually close at.
Installed Hardware
Barebones, ships without CPU, RAM, or drives.
- Drive bays
- 8× SFF (8 NVMe-capable)Backplane: SAS 12G/SATA
- Condition
- Used
Needs ~$50.80 more to run
This listing is missing parts to be a bootable server. Estimated cost to add: 1 CPU ~$30.00 · 16 GB RAM ~$20.80.
All-in ≈ $230.79 (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: Dell R640 (G14)
- Form factor
- 1U rack
- CPU socket
- LGA3647 × 2
- RAM max
- 3072 GB DDR4 · RDIMM, LRDIMM
- DIMM slots
- 24 (RDIMM, LRDIMM)
- Noise tier
- 3/5, Moderate (45–55 dB)
- Idle power
- 90W · ~$95/yr · ~$284/3yr to run (idle @ )
- Fan control
- good
- PCIe
- Gen 3 · 3 slots · 96 lanes
- AVX-512
- Yes
- IOMMU default
- Disabled (must enable for passthrough)
- Management
- iDRAC 9
- Max PSU
- 1600W
- Released
- 2017
Fit Breakdown (Balanced lens)
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 $179.99, this listing is 76% below the typical sold price (~$758.07), and 90% below the typical asking price (~$1,825.73 across 1186 live R640 listings). Sold = what it's worth; asking = what sellers want now (usually higher).
How we estimate the value (~$450.00 of parts)
| Chassis / base | $450.00 |
| Estimated component value | $450.00 |
Summed from used-market component prices (250% of the $179.99 asking price). A rough build-up, not the whole-unit sold price; (est.) marks an inferred part.