DELL PowerEdge R940 3U Rack Server 4x Xeon Gold 6134 3.2GHz 8C 512GB DDR4 2x 400GB SSD

Mission-critical compute platform

The Dell PowerEdge R940 is a 3U rack server populated with four Intel Xeon Gold 6134 processors running at 3.2 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. Each CPU provides eight cores, yielding 32 cores and 64 threads across the system. It ships with 512 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory installed across 16 DIMM slots, leaving 32 slots free for expansion up to 6 TB. A PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache manages storage, and dual 1600 W platinum power supplies provide redundancy.

Database and virtualisation hosts

This configuration suits organisations running memory-intensive databases, large-scale virtualisation clusters or analytics workloads that benefit from high core counts and large memory capacity. The four-socket design and 48 DIMM slots give headroom for growth. Buyers who need more than eight 2.5-inch drive bays or who require additional network connectivity beyond the provided dual 1 GbE and dual 10 Gb SFP+ ports should evaluate other platforms.

Four-socket scalability ceiling

The defining specification is the maximum of four installed processors, which is already reached in this unit. This means CPU performance cannot be increased by adding sockets; any future compute growth must come from memory expansion, storage changes or a platform migration.