I think the best thing to do now for someone that want to try mining ether is by leasing a rig (let me explain why). You invest much less to get some mining return, VS having to build a PC and try to find GPU that are NOT OVER valued. Also, when renting, you are not contributing at upping the hasrate, and then the difficulty, because these rig are already mining ethereum when they are not leased.
The biggest rig leasing place is the nicehash, but you cannot lease hashing power there. Is there another one?