"Miffed.." MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5/ MSI 975X PUE Platinum.

Question

Right can someone please care to explain to me, why this card requires not one but TWO 6 pin PCI-Ex connectors... which both have not one but TWO 4 pin Molex connectors.
Giving a grand total of 4 Molex connectors..
My PSU has 4x Molex and 1X SATA, I'm running 3 SATA drives and 1 DVD-Rom drive.
So I've had to ditch the extra drives so I could use the card.
Why can't the 4 pin Molex - 6 Pin PCI-Ex cables run off one single Molex plug instead of two?
I have two 12V rails from my PSU and both come from the PSU with their own single cable, which is spliced at the end... what's the point in using two plugs, both on that same splice when they both come from the same source?!
That's not the only thing, I have a lovely 4 pin Molex header on my main board next to the Primary PCI-Ex 16X slot, but it has pins... and guess what, so do the 4 pin Molex to 6 pin PCIEx connectors, so it renders it useless!
So a summation of questions.
Why two 6pin PCI-Ex headers on the card.
Why two 4 pin Molex plugs on the 6 pin PCI-Ex to 4 pin Molex converter?
Why have a Dedicated Molex header on the Main board which you can't physically connect to?
Me thinks the producers of this product need to scratch their head and re-think future products as it strikes me as idiotic.
P.s. Not once did I see ANY reference ANYWHERE to requiring four 4 pin Molex plugs to run the card.
Rant over
I'd love to see the reasoning behind it.

Answer 1

Thanks for your replies guys.
Yes I can see that spreading current across two connectors will increase the capacity, but to spread it again over another two 4 pin Molex's seems a bit strange, considering the end it connects to is just piggied off the first plug, leading to one rail on the PSU. (4 wires, not 8!)
The power supply is only about a year old, but indeed is a cheap Bay of E Jobby.
So your saying the Molex header on the mainboard itself is to stick a 12V from the PSU into?
I thought it was there to power a PCI-Ex card using the adaptor cable, the manual refers to it as "JPWR"
Quote
"ATX 12V Power Connector: JPW/ JPWR
And the JPWR 12V power connector is used to provide power to the PCIEX16 graphics card"
With the cables provided with the new card, they have a total of 4 plugs, but all pins, so unable to connect to "JPWR"
# Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 2.10
# MSI 975X Platinum Power Up Edition
# 4GB (2x2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 6400)
# MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5
# 1x Seagate SATAII 300GB 7200RPM, 2x Seagate SATAII 1TB 7200RPM
# Dvd-Rom (IDE)
# Audigy Gamer
# Windows 7 64Bit
# Bay of E Cheapo, 500Watt max Rail 1 18A Rail 2 15A 1xATX 4XMolex 1XSATA 1X12V ATX
I did a fair bit of research before buying this card, I settled on it because of my experiences with MSI as my Mainboard.
The Gigabyte one was 3 euro's cheaper and offered more or less the same bang for buck, and I was looking to keep this card for a number of years (I'm a student with a negative cash flow!) and hopefully make it last my next mainboard/cpu/ram upgrade (When I will actually get PCI-Ex 2.0!)
It just strikes me as odd when you look at a card and go "Oh, I'll need 1 6-pin Pci-ex connector, I can connect it to the mainboard with the provided header." Then discover you can't actually connect to the main board's provided header... Then discover there's actually TWO connectors... and both of hem require TWO Molex's to function... Grand total 4.  And none of this was in any literature or specifications provided at all anywhere.
I don't know but maybe the Gigabyte one only uses one 6pin pci-ex power plug.. Maybe it only uses one molex to convert to it. I have no clue, I haven't researched that particular product.