• The operating temperature specied is for a maximum altitude of 3050 m (10,000 ft).
• 150 W/8 C, 165 W/12 C and higher wattage processor(TDP>165 W) are not supported.
• Redundant power supply unit is required.
• Non-Dell qualied peripheral cards and/or peripheral cards greater than 25 W are not supported.
• PCIe SSD is not supported.
• Rear installed drives are not supported
• Tape backup unit is not supported.
Thermal restrictions
The following table lists the congurations required for ecient cooling.
Table 33. Thermal restrictions conguration
Conguration Number
of
processo
rs
Heatsink Processor/
DIMM blank
DIMM
blanks
Maximum number of
DIMM blanks
Fan
PowerEdge
R640 (2.5 inch
hard drives x
10)
1 One 1U standard heat
sink for CPU ≤ 165 W
Not required Required for
processor 1
11 blanks Five standard fans
One 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=200/205 W
and 150 W/165 W FO*
Required Eight high performance
fans
2 Two 1U standard heat
sink for CPU ≤ 165 W
Not required Eight standard fans
Two 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=200/205 W
and 150 W/165 W FO*
Required 22 blanks Eight high performance
fans
PowerEdge
R640 (2.5 inch
hard drives x 10
with NVMe
drives)
2 Two 1U standard heat
sink for CPU ≤ 165 W
Not required Required 22 blanks Eight high performance
fans
Two 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=200/205 W
and 150 W/165 W FO*
PowerEdge
R640
(2.5 inch hard
drives x 8)
(3.5 inch hard
drives x 4)
1 One 1U standard heat
sink for CPU ≤ 165 W
No Required for
processor 1
11 blanks Five standard fans
One 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=150 W/165 W
FO*
One 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=200/205 W
2 Two 1U standard heat
sink for CPU ≤ 165 W
Two 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=150 W/165 W
Yes Eight high performance
fans
Two 1U 2-pipe heat sink
for CPU=200/205 W
No Required 22 blanks Eight standard fans
Eight high performance
fans
Technical specications 41