Micro USB keep on going bad.

[Soldier]

Hello, so info on hardware if relevant:

Mobo: Gigabyte B450M DS3H

GPU: PowerColor RX 580

PSU: Cooler Master MWE White 600W v2

RAM: x2 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 MHz

Storage: 512 GB Adata SSD, 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD

OS: Windows 10

So the issue I have is that I have gone through about 10 micro USB cables in less than a year since having my PC. The only 2 uses for the micro USB cables are to charge my wireless headphones, and the main use, connect my PlayStation 4 (Dual shock 4) controller so I can play games on my PC. Typically what happens after roughly 1 month (time has varied) the cables start to get issues. At first the cable will stop register my controller and then instantly try to reconnect which takes a second or two. This gets progressively worse as I use the cable more until it will just continuously DC. What appears to trigger the cable to disconnect is movement of the controller and it gets more and more sensitive as time goes on until its unusable, since I’m unable to hold the controller perfectly still. It is ok for charging the headset since it is still. I’ve tried to use different ports but it doesn’t do anything, its happened with multiple different controllers and I barely have any other external devices connected to my PC: Mouse, Keyboard, display and ethernet, along with the wireless headset USB. I’ve tried different types of cables, in terms of brands, quality, length, etc.

Something that I guess could be a problem is that I always charge my headset without my PC actually being on, only the PSU is switched on so no fans or anything are going, could this be an issue?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[Bruce]

straight out of the gate, you’d be laying blame at the cable quality.
how much are you spending on each cable, where from, and brand names?

next, how about recharging from a wall socket using a power adapter - taking the PC out of the equation as far as recharges go at least. then see how long you get out of a cable.

what about getting a bluetooth dongle to connect the DS4 controllere to the PC wirelessly?

[Soldier]

thanks for the reply,
The cable I have right now is one from ITEC and it cost me £8 (11 USD) and the others were typically around £5 (7 USD) and I don’t remember the brand names for those honestly.

Charging isn’t a big issue so I should be ok there and I’d imagine the Bluetooth would completely solve the problem so I’ll try that. I was just confused as to why this kept happening I guess, thanks for the help.

[Bruce]

sorry, no idea why your sort of usage would have shortened the cable life span.
i can only really guess it was the dodgy cables themselves, and although you had tries many cables, I’m guessing they were all still ‘made in china’.

they only real way to prove that thoery is to know what cables you had and get a new completely different supplier, but how would we know where they were really sourced from?