DELL PowerEdge R740 2U 8-Bay 2x Xeon Gold 6148 2.4GHz 20C 512GB DDR4 H730P 2x 300GB SAS

Dual-socket Xeon server for dense compute

The PowerEdge R740 fits two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors, each with 20 cores running at 2.4 GHz and a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. Fifty-two gigabytes of DDR4-2666 registered ECC memory are installed across sixteen slots, leaving eight slots free for expansion. The PERC H730P controller manages SAS and SATA drives with hardware RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual redundant 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise remote management complete the platform.

Sustained multi-threaded throughput

With forty physical cores available, the system maintains high instruction throughput across long-running workloads such as database services, virtualisation hosts and scientific simulations. Turbo behaviour is governed by thermal and power envelopes rather than short bursts, so clock rates settle to sustainable levels under continuous load. The large memory capacity reduces paging pressure, while the H730P battery-backed cache protects write performance during extended write-heavy phases.

Thermals, acoustics and power in normal use

Redundant 750 W platinum supplies share the load efficiently, drawing only what the configured components require. The 2U chassis directs front-to-rear airflow through matched fan arrays, keeping CPU and memory temperatures stable during typical operation. Fan speed ramps gradually with inlet temperature, so acoustic output remains proportional to actual thermal demand rather than spiking on brief transients.