DELL PowerEdge M640 Blade Server 2x Xeon 8260 24C 2.4GHz 16GB DDR4 2x 960GB SATA SSD

Half-Height Blade for Dense Compute

The Dell PowerEdge M640 is a half-height blade server built for the PowerEdge MX and M1000e chassis. It arrives with two Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 processors, each running at 2.4 GHz with a 3.9 GHz turbo frequency and 24 cores. The system includes 16 GB of DDR4 2933 MHz registered ECC memory across 16 DIMM slots and a PERC H330 storage controller managing two 960 GB SATA SSDs in a 2.5-inch bay. iDRAC9 Enterprise provides remote management.

Virtualisation Hosts, Not GPU Farms

This blade suits teams consolidating virtual machines, running private cloud stacks or executing high-performance compute jobs that scale across many nodes in a shared chassis. The dual 10 GbE ports on the Broadcom 57810S-K daughter card handle east-west traffic between blades. Buyers who need local GPU acceleration, large local storage arrays or a standalone tower or rack form factor should look at a different platform.

24-Core Xeon Platinum 8260 at 2.4 GHz

The installed processors are the fixed specification that defines this blade's compute ceiling. Each CPU delivers 24 cores at 2.4 GHz base clock with 3.9 GHz turbo, and the server cannot accept more than two sockets. If a workload demands higher core counts per socket, faster base clocks or a different processor generation, this unit will not meet the requirement.