Yellow is +12 volts, and black is Ground.
6 pin molex connector pinout code#
The 4 pin molex connectors on your power supply use the same colour code shown below. It doesn't matter which pin goes to which connector, as long as every pin is connected to the right voltage. Each of these pins needs to be routed to an appropriate pin on the molex connectors. Shown below is the pinout for the graphics card connector. Once you have the pins removed from the female molex connectors, remove the wires from the pins by levering open the part which crimps onto the wire insulation, then cut the wire off the rest of the pin. If like us, you don't have a crimp tool a little soldering is required. If you happen to have a set of crimpers and the appropriate ends, your life will be a lot easier as you can just crimp a new set onto each cable. If you use a small flat bladed screwdriver, you can push down the latches on the pins so that they pop through the other side and can be reused. We hunted around for a couple of old 80mm case fans and stole the female molex plugs. You may just want to solder these wires straight onto your PSU, or you can do as we did and make an adaptor cable. You can make your adaptor as long or short as you like by cutting the PSU wires wherever you like. A quick clean up with a file or sharp knife will give us an appropriate plug. If you cut from the pin side and angle away from the top three, you have less chance of cutting into the pins you need. We found the best way to separate the top three pins is to use a hack saw. Hacking a PSU apart is not the best solution for everyone, but if you are like us you will probably have a dead PSU lying around somewhere. Luckily for us, there is part of the ATX connector that has a similar enough key to fit without any problems.Īs highlighted above, this top section is perfect. You will also notice the connector is keyed. However, if you have a soldering iron and a dead ATX power supply to hand, you can make your own.Īs you can see from this picture of our 6800GT, it is a very similar format to a standard ATX 20-pin connector. Buying an adaptor may be hard to do and you may end up paying an extortionate price for it. Many new power supplies come with the 6-pin connector as standard, so some companies may opt to not include the cable(4-pin molex to 6 pin), and of course many OEM cards have no cables included at all. As these were not retail cards, we cannot be sure if this will be the case when retail cards are released. When we did our testing, only one of the cards came with an appropriate adaptor. If you have read much about PCI Express graphics cards, you may have noticed how they now use a 6-pin socket for supplying external power to the board. i edited the article a bit to make it upto mark for today.(the original article had some flaws)Īnd this article is just to save your extra bucks for a SMPS. The article is written by spode and team and i just found it usefull, so posting here.
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