Is my psu wattage enough

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I have built a system with following specs.
Seasonic 600w psu with 130w on 3.3 and 5 line, 550w in 12vline.
Gigabyte g77 d3h mobo
I5 3570k
4x 2gb 1333 ram
Gtx570
2 sata 7k rpm 1tb drives
1 256gb ssd
Creative pci soundblaster card
1 dvd rw drive
2 80mm case fans connected to mobo

I checked on a website to check how much wattage psu i need andit came around 570w

After installing i booted and pc would not even go to POST and keeps restarting on its own.

What is wrong here, help meeded.
 
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Personally, the Asus for me is much easier to navigate and I've found their low-mid grade boards to have less quirks than gigabytes offerings.

Get some card-stock and stick it between the backplate and mobo (cut it to fit right, but overlap all the edges of the backplate so no possibility of metal contact). Because the cooler is loose, you're probably experiencing thermal shutdowns, can't tell exactly until you get into windows and check the event viewer for critical errors. It is possible the backplate is contacting any of the various circuitry on the back of the mobo, the thick card-stock should eliminate that possibility, but it's vital the cooler is mounted correctly, and that includes that rediculous center pressure adjustment screw.
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yes its a new built, removed the soundcard and loosened the cou cooler which is evo 212 and it started and installed os on the ssd and booted back and now it boots but shutsdown by the time windows has completed booting and the process repeats, trying to remove cpu cooler mount as i felt it was shorting somehow but one of the screws loosed and not coming off of the mobo, what do i do? Dont plan on upgrading further.
 
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Loosened the cpu cooler? WHY? The cpu cooler is supposed to be mounted exactly one time with its supply of paste undisturbed. And mounted to correct tightness at that. By loosening the cooler, you have disturbed the layer of paste and more than likely introduced air gaps. This will create hot spots on the cpu and there's a good chance that it's that loose that the cpu goes into thermal shutdown almost immediately.

Stop trying to turn on the pc. Mount the 212 Evo correctly!. There are more than a few videos and pages of directions as to how to mount a 212 evo. Google them, watch them, read them. You may find this solves your shutdowns.

Oh, a gtx570 requires a decent 550w, anything more is just icing on the cake and leaves headroom for efficient OC without going anywhere near the 100% load mark.
 
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I was doing various things to make it boot and loosening the cooler mount screws got it working, cooler mounted correctly, my thoughts are i might have damaged the board by overscrewing bolts and nuts, now it is booting but suddenly shutting down randomly, dont know where the problem lies, might be a mobo problem, another question is should i buy an asus or gigabyte z77 mobo, which one is better, gigabyte z77 d3h or asus p8z77-m?
 
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Personally, the Asus for me is much easier to navigate and I've found their low-mid grade boards to have less quirks than gigabytes offerings.

Get some card-stock and stick it between the backplate and mobo (cut it to fit right, but overlap all the edges of the backplate so no possibility of metal contact). Because the cooler is loose, you're probably experiencing thermal shutdowns, can't tell exactly until you get into windows and check the event viewer for critical errors. It is possible the backplate is contacting any of the various circuitry on the back of the mobo, the thick card-stock should eliminate that possibility, but it's vital the cooler is mounted correctly, and that includes that rediculous center pressure adjustment screw.
 
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