I've got some great advice from the community in the last two days so really big thanks for that. I think I may have narrowed down my choices and started to get into the end zone for my first custom build. I've got two examples here - one for over clocking & one for not. I'm not really sure if over clocking would be worth the extra £s and would appreciate opinions on that. I'm also stuck on the GPU too. I would be very happy with any advice or builds you can throw my way 
On the budget I guess I'm fairly flexible but would like to keep costs down and try to not high diminishing returns. The use of the PC would be for gaming though I would be doing most next gen on PS4 so it doesn't have to be really powerful - I do play a lot of PC games though.
CPU: i5-3350P: £132
GPU: Geforce GTX 760 / HD7950: There is many different choices of these ranging from £170 to around £280. I don't know which chipset out of these two and then which video card after that.
Motherboard: ASRock H77 Pro4 (there are two different choices with different form factors; don't know which one would be best): £64
Power supply: SeaSonic G 550W: £76
Case: Enermax Ostrog GT ~£70
Total: £512-£622 depending on the video card. [In dollars that's $812-$1000]
OR
CPU: i5-3570K/i5-4670K: £178
CPU Cooler: Scythe Ashura : £40
GPU: Geforce GTX 760 / HD7950: £170-£280
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate : £78
Power supply: SeaSonic G 550W: £76
Case: Enermax Ostrog GT ~£70
Total: £612-£722 depending on the video card. [In dollars that's $1000-$1300]
Items I already have and not included:
2x4GB DRR3 RAM
120GB SSD
2x750GB HDD
So which would would be better taking into account price. Would the second builds performance be worth the extra £100($160)? The second one does have the possibility for overclocking but I don't know anything about it or whether it is actually worth it.
Also I apologise if I made any mistakes, I'm pretty new to this so may have made numerous big ones
On the budget I guess I'm fairly flexible but would like to keep costs down and try to not high diminishing returns. The use of the PC would be for gaming though I would be doing most next gen on PS4 so it doesn't have to be really powerful - I do play a lot of PC games though.
CPU: i5-3350P: £132
GPU: Geforce GTX 760 / HD7950: There is many different choices of these ranging from £170 to around £280. I don't know which chipset out of these two and then which video card after that.
Motherboard: ASRock H77 Pro4 (there are two different choices with different form factors; don't know which one would be best): £64
Power supply: SeaSonic G 550W: £76
Case: Enermax Ostrog GT ~£70
Total: £512-£622 depending on the video card. [In dollars that's $812-$1000]
OR
CPU: i5-3570K/i5-4670K: £178
CPU Cooler: Scythe Ashura : £40
GPU: Geforce GTX 760 / HD7950: £170-£280
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate : £78
Power supply: SeaSonic G 550W: £76
Case: Enermax Ostrog GT ~£70
Total: £612-£722 depending on the video card. [In dollars that's $1000-$1300]
Items I already have and not included:
2x4GB DRR3 RAM
120GB SSD
2x750GB HDD
So which would would be better taking into account price. Would the second builds performance be worth the extra £100($160)? The second one does have the possibility for overclocking but I don't know anything about it or whether it is actually worth it.
Also I apologise if I made any mistakes, I'm pretty new to this so may have made numerous big ones
But yes if there is other cheaper high quality cases I'm all ears.
. I assume I only need a good screwdriver and time?
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