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Overclocking is all one touch nowadays with UEFI or the manufacture suites that come with pretty much every newer motherboard, a retarded monkey could do it with no trouble, it's very easy and companies like Intel and AMD are starting to underclock their processors just so people feel all warm and fuzzy when they one touch their speed up past 4 GHz
I wouldn't bother OC'ing your memory, it doesn't do much for you just check the specs on the modules and the latency times and make sure you're getting those times when they get installed it might need some tweaking to get the specs that the modules are rated for but that also isn't very difficult with how easy the UEFI's are right now. Example of this is when a person buys a dual channel kit with the modules rated for 1600Mhz alot of the time the motherboard will default the modules to 1333Mhz so you just have to change that in the bios. The motherboards also tell you what speeds they support without overclocking.
I would however OC your video card whichever you choose to buy and in most cases you can save money on video cards by buying a Non-OC'd card and then doing it yourself with windows software (MSI afterburner is free software and will OC Nvidia GPU's as well as AMD GPU's) ASUS also has one they just came out with too, can't remember the name. This is very easy as well as you're pretty much just moving a slider bar in the program and then restarting. You may have to tweak voltage depending on how high of an OC you want but they're minor tweaks. I'm making it sound easy but it really is just dont go overboard and 99.9% of the time you'll be just fine.
I will say your buying method is a bit risky imo, motherboards are something I usually buy last in my builds because of the DOA risk I want to be able to RMA or return if needed. It's not something that happens often but better safe than sorry. What I normally do is decide on the board and then buy everything else other than solid state drive before the MB. Buying a processor first is fine those things are solid as steel.
I would suggest deciding on your CPU before anything else, once that is done, decide on a video card and get the dimensions of it, after that pick out a case making sure it will be big enough to house your video card and any aftermarket cooling solutions if you plan on doing that. Then pick out your power supply and make sure it can handle whatever video card you picked. Now pick out your motherboard because at this point you know which socket you need, you know how big it can be, and you know which expansion slot(s) you will need for your video card, and you also know which power supply connectors you have and double check to make sure the board calls for them and the video card connectors as well (from the psu). It sounds like a lot of information but it's not too bad. After that figure what you want for your storage and boot or if it's going to be the same drive (wouldn't reccommend that) and pick out some memory and an optical drive and that's about it.
Give me a few min I'll link to some good processors in your price range.
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