upgrading Intel Pentium G4560 to i5 7500 and GTX 750 ti to GTX 1070 8GB

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i am going to upgrade my budget build with a;
Pentium G460 to a I5 7500
Asus Strix GTX 750 ti to a GTX 1070 8gb Asus Dual
with 8gb ddr4 ram

is this a good gaming build or should i get a better CPU and gpu

and will the i5 bottlekneck the gtx 1070
 
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Thermaltake Smart series PSUs are a low quality PSUs and don't use that with your GTX 1070. You'd be much better off by using any good quality Seasonic PSU in 500W range, e.g: S12II-520, M12II-520 EVO, G-550 or Focus+ 550,
pcpp: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/bkp323,TgW9TW,fZyFf7,DPCwrH/

Focus+ is the newest PSU line from Seasonic and it comes with 10 years of OEM warranty. Other listed Seasonic PSUs come with 5 years of OEM warranty.
All my 3 PCs: Skylake, Haswell and AMD are also powered by Seasonic. Full specs with pics in my sig.

Other than that, your upgrade plans are good. While i7-7700(K) costs quite a bit and if you don't have money for that, look towards i5-7600(K) which is also a good CPU for gaming with a bit...
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Whats your PSU make and model (or part number)? Since GTX 1070 is 150W GPU while GTX 750 Ti is 75W GPU and you may need to buy a new PSU too.

With those upgrades, you're looking to game with high/ultra settings @ 1440p (2K) with solid 60+ FPS.
 
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It's a big upgrade and good pairing but I would pay the extra and go i7 7700/7700k, even if you don't have a Z170/Z270 motherboard the 7700k is clocked higher from stock and can usually be found for very little extra.

Although the i5 is great there are a few games already that benefit from an i7 and the trend with the latest AAA games is to be able to use more threads. When the next gen Coffee Lake CPU's launch a 4 core will be the introductory i3, the i5's & i7's will be 6 cores so even Intel can see they need to up cores/threads. I think an i7 will last much longer and even though an i5 does well today they are starting to look a little dated.
 
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i Have a Thermaltake 450 watt power supply but i will be upgrading that to a Thermaltake Smart 550w 80+ power supply

 
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Thermaltake Smart series PSUs are a low quality PSUs and don't use that with your GTX 1070. You'd be much better off by using any good quality Seasonic PSU in 500W range, e.g: S12II-520, M12II-520 EVO, G-550 or Focus+ 550,
pcpp: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/bkp323,TgW9TW,fZyFf7,DPCwrH/

Focus+ is the newest PSU line from Seasonic and it comes with 10 years of OEM warranty. Other listed Seasonic PSUs come with 5 years of OEM warranty.
All my 3 PCs: Skylake, Haswell and AMD are also powered by Seasonic. Full specs with pics in my sig.

Other than that, your upgrade plans are good. While i7-7700(K) costs quite a bit and if you don't have money for that, look towards i5-7600(K) which is also a good CPU for gaming with a bit better performance than i5-7500.
Few comparisons:
i5-7500 vs i5-7600: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7500-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7600/3648vs3890
i5-7500 vs i5-7600K: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7500-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7600K/3648vs3885
i5-7500 vs i7-7700: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7500-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700/3648vs3887
i5-7500 vs i7-7700K: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7500-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700K/3648vs3647

Note: none of the Intel K-series CPUs come with a CPU cooler and if you go with one, you'll also need to buy an aftermarket CPU cooler. Here's a list of best CPU coolers to choose from (my Skylake's build i5-6600K is cooled by Arctic Freezer i32, also present in that list),
link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-cpu-coolers,4181.html
 
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Also look on youtube for videos giving framerates for the i5 with the gtx 1070. Most games, 1080P, you'll be very happy. For gaming balance surprised so many people above said spend the extra $100 on i7.

Also, do read about new intel 8th gen coming in Oct. That should drop prices quite a bit on the i5-7xxx and i7-7xxx -- the new i5 and i7 are 6 core models with 10% better single thread at <rumor> same price as current i5 and i7. Your guess is as good as mine how that will work out in real life.

+1 discussion above about getting a good PSU. I also use Seasonic, they are not expensive and they test really well at sites like http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/ and http://www.jonnyguru.com/
 
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yeah, I decided that I am going to save up and buy a new motherboard and CPU for the newer Intel processors which are coming out in October.

 
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