I'd be careful with third party cables. I used to think it wasn't a big deal until I realized that they were destroying the charging/sync port on my iPhones and iPads. It was slowly chipping away at the board but luckily the Apple store replaced them. I was starting to have charging issues after a while.
I'm not saying all do it but if you look at the pins of the on some of your cables you might see that because of the cables, its chipping the board inside away and actually bending the pins on your cables. Just be careful