I just bought a 460 GTX 1GB that came with two splitter cables for the power supply. (a six pin connector, split into two four pin molex) One of the wires fell out of one of the adapters and I'm having absolute hell trying to find the right kind of connector.
I have a five year old Thermaltake 750 watt PSU with modular cabling. This card takes two six pin connectors. The plugs on the psu are male, and the card is male. EVERY SINGLE ****ING CABLE I look at is female to male. So now what do I do? I need a cable with a female on both ends.

The adapters only have 5 pins on them.  One of the pins, a middle one, is intentionally empty.  This is only for the adapters, but it is not an issue.

I have never seen a video card with male power plugins? It should have 2 female 6 pin plugins on it. 

Maybe I don't understand the gender? The card has pins, the cable has "open" pins that fit around the card's pins.
I do a lot of Molex pin outs at work and this is how we refer to the genders of the connectors.
Good lord I can't post a link to an image of pins... :/
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So both my card and psu have what would be male according to how I understand gendering on connectors. Both have the solid pins.

The adapters (on the 6 pin side) are male.  The card's power connections are female.
 
Missing cables to 1 pin (a middle pin) on the 6 pin male adapter is normal.

Ok it's NOT missing a pin. One of the wires fell off. As in physically fell off in my hand. The brown wires are doubled up and one of those fell out and the remaining wire does not make a connection. Sorry for not being more clear.

Ahh... thats different...
 
Here's the crux of it.  EVGA will more than likely send you a new one.  Depending on how far away you are from southern California, will depend on how long it takes USPS or UPS (whomever they use) to get it to you, GROUND shipment. So this could go from a couple business days to a week.
 
The fun part is, that these adapters are not recommended for long term use to begin with.  It would be much better to have a PSU that has the needed power connections built in (or as modular cables).  If your power supply does not have them, you can afford a new PSU, and do not want to wait for a new adapter cable, then I would go get a PSU.

I can't afford a new psu. And unless someone from EVGA corrects me, for anyone else reading this thread I am correct in the gender specifications.
I'm going to wind up buying two fm/m cables and wiring them together myself.
Can someone confirm if a 6pin to 6+2pin will work if I just leave the +2 dangling? Because I have found one of those with female ends.

Oh! I see what is going on. Does your psu have 4 pin molex connections or 6 pin connections?

King Mango


I can't afford a new psu. And unless someone from EVGA corrects me, for anyone else reading this thread I am correct in the gender specifications.
I'm going to wind up buying two fm/m cables and wiring them together myself.
Can someone confirm if a 6pin to 6+2pin will work if I just leave the +2 dangling? Because I have found one of those with female ends.

A 6+2 pin cable is the exact same wiring and capabilities (on the 6 pin part) as a solo 6 pin cable.  That is your best bet (as its built into the PSU already).

King Mango


I can't afford a new psu. And unless someone from EVGA corrects me, for anyone else reading this thread I am correct in the gender specifications.
I'm going to wind up buying two fm/m cables and wiring them together myself.
Can someone confirm if a 6pin to 6+2pin will work if I just leave the +2 dangling? Because I have found one of those with female ends.

Yes. A 6+2 pin will work perfectly fine. Not to sound like I know anything, but a male adapter points out and a female adapter points in. Just like in human anatomy. LOL 

Yeah I have a single four pin cable coming off the power supply with a couple of molex splits, but those are already taken up by the HDD and the Optical.
The psu has a dedicated six pin cable and four sockets for additional six pin cables. It's from the early days of sli and I just never got around to running an sli setup.
I'm off to Fry's. BTW if anyone in LA hasn't been to the Manhattan Beach Fry's yet, I wouldn't advise it. The store is about 1/8 the size of a normal fry's and their computer parts section is only made up of one very short aisle. City of Industry would be a better bet or Newegg will call also in City of Industry if you can wait a day.

Well sounds like you have plenty of room to run another 6 pin then. The gpu will get much better power from the 6 pin then the molex anyway. Good luck

Yeah I never wanted to use the molex splitters that came with the card in the first place. It's just unbelievable how hard it is to find the right cable though lol...
I did make a request to EVGA tech support and I have full faith in them sending me a replacement. But I will only use that as a last resort with some four pin molex piggyback plugs... But yeah, I don't want the supply to the card shared. Especially with the HDD. That just seems like too much work for one connector.

Just so everyone knows, because there seems to be some confusion, the gender of the adapter is dependent upon the pins it contains, not the shape of the plastic plug. Because a female connector could be mistaken for a male since it has the six "male parts." Now that I can post links here is an image to clarify:
http://img.ncix.com/images/17110_l.jpg
In this image, the four pin molex connector on the left is male, and the six pin on the right is female. As well it is easy to mistake the four pin molex male and female because it's actually the female connector that slides into the male connector.
 
 

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Well Thermaltake needs to organize their website a little bit better. I looked under several links for power cables and couldn't find them. Had to do a site search to find them. But glad I did. I assume they will have what I need. Unfortunately, my PSU does not visibly indicate what model it is, and the descriptions of the cables on the Thermaltake site are leaving me wanting... Good times!

Regarding the sexing of connector bodies and contacts;
 
A male contact is a 'pin'.
 
A female contact is a 'socket'.
 
A male connector body is a 'plug'.
 
A female connector body is a 'receptacle'.
 
Typically, each assembly has both sexes; e.g., a plug has sockets, a receptacle has pins.