Building my first PC I was curious if 600 watts is enough?

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CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790 3.60 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150
CPU / Processor Cooling Fan: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler
Motherboard: * MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX w/ GIGABit LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1x M.2, 6x SATA 6GB/s (All Venom OC Certified)
RAM / System Memory: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16
Video Capture Card: Avermedia Live Gamer HD 1080p Capture
Power Supply: 600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready
Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)

These are the specs I have is 600 watts enough? Please help and any suggests! I appreciate it.
 
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nVIDIA is the chip maker, EVGA is the assembler of the card, like many others say Gigabyte, Asus, Zotac etc. EVGA GTX 960 Superclocked is a good one to buy.
If you say the psu is a corsair, then you are in good shape. Even if it is a low end CX 600W supply, your system will never load it to its max and hence it will work fine.
One thing I will suggest is that if you are building this for gaming, then get an i5 instead of the i7 to save money. Also, you don't need a Z97 board if you are not buying an unlocked Haswell CPU. So get a H97 or Z87 based motherboard if that is cheaper.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157526
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Not sure im pretty sure its a corsair. Kind of new to this lol. And quick question whats the differnece between the video card nvidia geforce gtx 960 and the evga? Which one is better to go by.
 
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nVIDIA is the chip maker, EVGA is the assembler of the card, like many others say Gigabyte, Asus, Zotac etc. EVGA GTX 960 Superclocked is a good one to buy.
If you say the psu is a corsair, then you are in good shape. Even if it is a low end CX 600W supply, your system will never load it to its max and hence it will work fine.
One thing I will suggest is that if you are building this for gaming, then get an i5 instead of the i7 to save money. Also, you don't need a Z97 board if you are not buying an unlocked Haswell CPU. So get a H97 or Z87 based motherboard if that is cheaper.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157526
 
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Thanks so should I go with the NVIDIA GTX 960 or EVGA superclocked NVDIA GTX 960? they are the same price so I was wondering if theres any differnece?
 
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Ok cool thanks dude ill definitely do that!
 
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB GDDR5

EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16

Can't find the link but these are the two different ones. Not sure what was the difference.
 
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Ok cool ill go with it I appreciate it man lots of help. Still trying to learn most of this stuff. lol Thanks again and have a good one!
 
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