benjamine6 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Last night, I ordered a Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 Gigabyte OC edition. Then i realise that by looking at images there is two 6 pin inserts. My power supply has two four pin adapters which i assume you can hook in to an ADAPTER, but i don't understand how this works. Am i supposed to buy two seperate adapters one for each 4 pin plug or something? Can someone help me make sense of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Which powersupply do you have? You would need an adapter on each cable, so two total. http://www.amazon.com/Link-Depot-Express-Adapter-Inches/dp/B000JWTIKC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamine6 Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 My power supply is POWMAX 650Watt. And are you saying i need a quanity of two of these Link Depot Express Adapters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamine6 Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Wait. This won't work. You see, The Video card requires TWO 6pin plugs. Juding by this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) Is this the powersupply? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817163075 The specs list that it has 1, 6 pin PCIe connector. If that is true, you would only need 1 adapter. If you have 0, 6 pin PCIe connectors on the powersupply, you would need TWO of those adapters, which would give you TWO 6 pin PCIe connectors for the GPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamine6 Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Nope, That's not right. THIS is the one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231626267158?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Doesn't look like your power supply will work. Specs show: Two (2) large Molex 4-pin power connectors IIRC, it takes 2x 4pin Molex to make 1 single 6 Pin via an adapter. BTW why the heck is that power supply $279, and why has anyone bought it (shows 21 sold) It's worth about $30 Jim K and Raa 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) Ok, that PSU has no PCIe connectors. You would need to use two adapters, to give you two PCIe connectors. The proper way, as xendrome said, is to use adapters that take two 4pin and create 1 6 pin. However, I found this on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/4-Pin-Molex-Female-Adapter-Length/dp/B007NMSUUA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hopefully that PS has enough juice on the 12v rails to power this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story3&reid=71 Seems it has 24a on the 12V. OP is this in a MicroATX case? The ebay you linked to is a microatx PSU, but the one I found on jonnyguru is a full size atx powersupply, can you confirm for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Scrip Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 29 minutes ago, benjamine6 said: Last night, I ordered a Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 Gigabyte OC edition. Then i realise that by looking at images there is two 6 pin inserts. My power supply has two four pin adapters which i assume you can hook in to an ADAPTER, but i don't understand how this works. Am i supposed to buy two seperate adapters one for each 4 pin plug or something? Can someone help me make sense of this? Just curious.... how much did you pay for this card? Was it new or used? The GTX 460 is kinda old at this point in time... and it looks like a 750ti would be much faster and more power efficient. And it's only around $125 new. +JHBrown 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 50 minutes ago, Michael Scrip said: Just curious.... how much did you pay for this card? Was it new or used? The GTX 460 is kinda old at this point in time... and it looks like a 750ti would be much faster and more power efficient. And it's only around $125 new. 460 GTX's on Ebay are only going for like $40 so I hope he got a deal. Raa 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Scrip Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 1 minute ago, xendrome said: 460 GTX's on Ebay are only going for like $40 so I hope he got a deal. I hope he got a deal too. It's still an old card though... I wonder what other newer GTXs are going for on Ebay? You can't just look at the dollar amount... you also have to consider what you're getting for that money. Let's say the GTX 460 was $40... but you could get a much better card for $60. Wouldn't it make more sense to pay a little more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 2 minutes ago, Michael Scrip said: I hope he got a deal too. It's still an old card though... I wonder what other newer GTXs are going for on Ebay? You can't just look at the dollar amount... you also have to consider what you're getting for that money. Let's say the GTX 460 was $40... but you could get a much better card for $60. Wouldn't it make more sense to pay a little more? Yeah of course, I would have never bought a GTX 460, I would have gotten something newer, and more power efficent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JHBrown Subscriber¹ Posted February 8, 2016 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 8, 2016 1 hour ago, Michael Scrip said: Just curious.... how much did you pay for this card? Was it new or used? The GTX 460 is kinda old at this point in time... and it looks like a 750ti would be much faster and more power efficient. And it's only around $125 new. This ^. I've even seen the GTX 950 on sale at Amazon for $119. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 47 minutes ago, JHBrown said: This ^. I've even seen the GTX 950 on sale at Amazon for $119. And it would perform far better and use a fraction of the power too! Not to mention it will support newer technologies the 460 can't... +JHBrown 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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