IBM Power7 Models

8231-E1C / 8231-E1D

IBM Power 710 Express (8231-E1C / 8231-E1D)

You have a Power 710 Express. Here's what that means in 2026: IBM's smallest Power7 rack server, out of IBM hardware support since 2019, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

4, 6, or 8 cores (POWER7), up to 3.55 GHz 8-64 GB DDR3

8202-E4B / 8202-E4C / 8202-E4D

IBM Power 720 Express (8202-E4B / E4C / E4D)

You have a Power 720 Express. Here's what that means in 2026: IBM's entry single-socket tower/rack Power7 box, out of IBM hardware support since 2019, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

4, 6, or 8 cores (POWER7/POWER7+), up to 3.6 GHz Up to 128 GB DDR3

8231-E2B

IBM Power 730 Express (8231-E2B)

You have a Power 730 Express. Here's what that means in 2026: a dual-socket entry Power7 box, out of IBM hardware support since 2019, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

8, 12, or 16 cores across 2 sockets (POWER7), 3.0-3.55 GHz Up to 128 GB DDR3

8205-E6B / 8205-E6C / 8205-E6D

IBM Power 740 Express (8205-E6B / E6C / E6D)

You have a Power 740 Express. Here's what that means in 2026: a dual-socket scale-out Power7 box, out of IBM hardware support since 2019, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

Up to 16 cores across 2 sockets (POWER7/POWER7+) Up to 256 GB DDR3

8233-E8B (POWER7) / 8408-E8D (POWER7+)

IBM Power 750 Express (8233-E8B / 8408-E8D)

You have a Power 750 Express. Here's what that means in 2026: a 4-socket midrange Power7 box, out of IBM hardware support since 2019-2020, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

4- to 32-core configurations across 4 sockets (POWER7/POWER7+) Up to 512 GB DDR3

8236-E8C

IBM Power 755 (8236-E8C)

You have a Power 755. Here's what that means in 2026: a 750-derived HPC cluster node, out of IBM hardware support since 2019, and rarely found running IBM i workloads.

32 cores across 4 sockets (POWER7) Up to 128 GB DDR3 (lower ceiling than the general-purpose 750, optimized for compute density over memory capacity)

9109-RMD

IBM Power 760 (9109-RMD)

You have a Power 760. Here's what that means in 2026: a 4-socket enterprise Power7 box introduced in 2011, out of IBM hardware support since 2019, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

Up to 32 cores across 4 sockets (POWER7) Up to 1 TB DDR3

9117-MMB / 9117-MMC / 9117-MMD

IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB / MMC / MMD)

You have a Power 770. Here's what that means in 2026: a modular enterprise Power7 system, out of IBM hardware support since 2019-2020, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

Up to 64 cores across 4 nodes (POWER7+, 9117-MMD, 8-core-per-node configurations at up to 3.1/3.5 GHz) Up to 2 TB across a full 4-node build

9179-MHB / 9179-MHC / 9179-MHD

IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB / MHC / MHD)

You have a Power 780. Here's what that means in 2026: IBM's flagship modular Power7 system, out of IBM hardware support since 2019-2020, running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

Up to 64 cores across 4 nodes (POWER7+, 9179-MHD); TurboCore mode trades core count for higher per-core clock speed Up to 2 TB across a full 4-node build

9119-FHB

IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)

You have a Power 795. Here's what that means in 2026: IBM's largest Power7 system, withdrawn from marketing in 2015, out of IBM hardware support since 2020, and running on borrowed time on IBM i 7.3.

Up to 256 cores across a full 32-socket build (POWER7) Multiple terabytes across a full build (exact ceiling varies by configuration -- confirm with IBM's sales manual or a sourcing vendor for a specific build)