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A 6-pin female to female PCI-E connector? I have a board that comes with a male connector for the PCI-E power... don't know why. Image here:

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So, it looks like I need a female to female connector to connect it to a video card.

I found this...
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/9...o_6-Pin_PCI-E_Female_Cable.html?tl=g11c28s427

But that price just looks ridiculous! Thanks for any help :)
 
Sorry, changed permissions on the picture.

You can see that the connector that I have doesn't match up with the one that normal PSUs have (female).
 
the pic you have is a picture of a femal connector lol the link from frozen cpu is a male to male connector you got it backwards lol. but it looks like you have a modular psu??? or is the image you linked on your motherboard?? if its on the motherboard it must be for on board graphics. if its on the powersupply then you are missing a cable that came with it and are more than likely going to have to fork out the money for that male to male adapter. OR you can make one yourself if you have an old power supply laying around cut up the 20+4 pin connection so that you have the correct connector ends for 2 6 pin connections then solder the wires together heatshrink and wham! thats what I have done in the past when I bought a power supply on emay and it came without the 6 pin connections.
 
That isn't a picture of a connector on a power supply..that's on some kind of board.. is that a picture of the connector on your graphics card? I can't tell at all.. but that's what the connector on a GPU *should* look like. I think we're missing something here. What power supply do you have and what graphics card do you have?
 
overclocking101 said:
the pic you have is a picture of a femal connector lol the link from frozen cpu is a male to male connector you got it backwards lol. but it looks like you have a modular psu??? or is the image you linked on your motherboard?? if its on the motherboard it must be for on board graphics. if its on the powersupply then you are missing a cable that came with it and are more than likely going to have to fork out the money for that male to male adapter. OR you can make one yourself if you have an old power supply laying around cut up the 20+4 pin connection so that you have the correct connector ends for 2 6 pin connections then solder the wires together heatshrink and wham! thats what I have done in the past when I bought a power supply on emay and it came without the 6 pin connections.
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I was pretty certain that the picture that I had was a female connector, but the description on frozen cpu and a bunch of other sites say that the link I gave is a female connector and not a male connector.

Regardless of naming convention, I hope it's pretty clear that the cable that I need is the one I linked to the one from frozen cpu, but $20 is kind of ridiculous for a cable.

angelicvoices said:
That isn't a picture of a connector on a power supply..that's on some kind of board.. is that a picture of the connector on your graphics card? I can't tell at all.. but that's what the connector on a GPU *should* look like. I think we're missing something here. What power supply do you have and what graphics card do you have?
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Okay. I know that the connector in my picture is the exact same as the connector that belongs on a video card. The connector in my picture is located on the motherboard and yes it's meant to power the video card - why they used a "female" connector instead of a male connector, I don't know.

This is a connector labeled, as you can see, "video power" meant for the 6-pin PCI-E.

The reason this might confuse you is because you're only used to consumer stuff. This is from an IBM server.
 
Is the problem that you need to run a cable from that socket to another socket on a video card? If that's the case, what you basically need is a typical male-to-male PCI-E cable like the ones that typically are used by modular power supplies. This would most likely work: http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=414

If you buy it, you would just have to check out the pinout on both ends to make sure that it's the same.
 
If you're doing what zero said then that makes sense now.. but if you're just trying to plug from your power supply to that socket then there isn't any problem.. your pci-e connectors on power supplies are male. The connector on your board is female. No issues..
 
Zero82z said:
Is the problem that you need to run a cable from that socket to another socket on a video card? If that's the case, what you basically need is a typical male-to-male PCI-E cable like the ones that typically are used by modular power supplies. This would most likely work: http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=414

If you buy it, you would just have to check out the pinout on both ends to make sure that it's the same.
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That is *perfect*. Thanks!
 
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