Worry not, [Spencer Maroukis] has got you covered with the USB Sleuth Cable Tester! The cable tester is a beautiful black circular PCB, with USB ports of nearly every type on the edges.

While the temperatures he recorded were still within spec, he wondered whether one cable pulling more power than the others would be a much more widespread issue. One user theorized the problem ...

The Nvidia RTX 5090 heated its power cable past boiling point in a test As spotted by Tom's Hardware, Andreas Schilling on X posted images of their RTX 5090 working away. They pointed their ...

That PSU is an 80 Plus Platinum, ATX 3.0-compliant power supply that sells for $230 on Amazon – not a cheap, underpowered model, basically. Roachard says the cable was plugged directly into the PSU.