Dell PowerEdge R740 8 SFF Server Barebone W/ 2x Heatsink 1x H730P 2x 750W PSU
Dell R740
74% below typical · Typically sells ~$1,353.24
Bare unit: the price reflects an empty chassis (no CPU/RAM)
🇺🇸 US · First seen 21 days ago
100% · 22kComparable sold · 19 sales · last 90 days
Median $1,256.85 · range $651.68–$2,539.04
This listing is 72% 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 ~$20.80 more to run
This listing is missing parts to be a bootable server. Estimated cost to add: 16 GB RAM ~$20.80.
All-in ≈ $370.79 (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 R740 (G14)
- Form factor
- 2U 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
- 120W · ~$126/yr · ~$378/3yr to run (idle @ )
- Fan control
- good
- PCIe
- Gen 3 · 8 slots · 96 lanes
- AVX-512
- Yes
- IOMMU default
- Disabled (must enable for passthrough)
- Management
- iDRAC 9
- Max PSU
- 2400W
- 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 $349.99, this listing is 74% below the typical sold price (~$1,353.24), and 83% below the typical asking price (~$2,109.95 across 314 live R740 listings). Sold = what it's worth; asking = what sellers want now (usually higher).
How we estimate the value (~$499.00 of parts)
| Chassis / base | $450.00 |
| HBA dell-perc-h730p | $49.00 |
| Estimated component value | $499.00 |
Summed from used-market component prices (143% of the $349.99 asking price). A rough build-up, not the whole-unit sold price; (est.) marks an inferred part.