Dell EMC PowerEdge R340 - Processor Settings

Feature Description
The PowerEdge R340 thermal control system regulates the
fan speed based on several dierent responses from critical
components' temperature sensors as well as inventory for
system congurations.
• Open and Closed loop fan speed control:
– Open loop control uses system conguration
information to determine fan speed based on system
inlet temperature.
– Closed loop control method uses component
temperature feedback from various sub-systems to
dynamically determine optimum fan speeds.
– User congurable settings:
◦ With the understanding and realization that every
customer has unique set of circumstances or
expectations from the system, you can adjust the
thermal control settings and optimize against the
system performance and performance-per-Watt
requirements.
◦ iDRAC Web interface, RACADM, or the iDRAC
Settings Utility can be used for setting custom
thermal settings. The settings are persistent,
which means that once they are set and applied,
they do not automatically change to the default
setting during system reboot, power cycling,
iDRAC, or BIOS updates. For more info on
specics of the user interfaces, please refer to
the iDRAC User Guide.
Acoustics
The PowerEdge R340 is a rack-mount server appropriate for attended data center environment. However, lower acoustical output is
attainable with proper hardware or software congurations. For example, the minimum conguration of R340 is quiet enough for
typical oce environment. The list below are the R340's acoustical dependencies:
• Ambient Temperature: For a similar workload fan speeds (and thus, acoustical noise) may increase as ambient temperature
increases.
• High Wattage CPU: High-power (TDP) CPU parts may result in higher acoustical noise output.
• Rear Drives: When rear drives are installed in R340, fan speed may increase for cooling the drives, and hence both idle and
operating acoustical outputs may be higher.
• System Thermal Prole Selected in BIOS: The default setting is “Power Optimized (DAPC)”, which generally means lower fan
speed and acoustics. If “Performance Optimized” is selected, fan speed and acoustical noise may increase.
R340 acoustical performance is characterized for two congurations: Typical and Feature Rich. The following tables summarizes the
conguration and acoustical performance of the R340. Each conguration has been tested according to Dell EMC acoustical
standards for rack mounted servers
Conguration
Typical Feature rich
CPU Type Intel E-2124 Intel E-2126G
CPU TDP 71 W 80 W
CPU Quantity 1 1
Memory Type 16GB UDIMM 32GB UDIMM
DIMM Quantity 2 4
Backplane Type 4X 3.5" Hot-plug 8x 2.5" hot swap
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