What's a good mini ITX build for travelling?

[marcooli0]

My current build is a mid tower (on the larger side) with the following components:

FX 8350 @4.4 ghz (overclocked)
GTX 970 4 GB (3.5 i guess...whatever)
2 TB of Hard Drive space. No SD.
8 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz
Fatal1ty OCZ Power Supply 750w
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Since I travel a lot, I obviously can't carry this behemoth around. Does anyone have any suggestions for a build that is both portable and capable of gaming at 1080p with a reasonably good frame rate? I'm willing to cut some corners like cutting out the SSD and what not but I would like the performance to be relatively similar to what I'm getting now.

 

[Barty1884]

That case won't be able to house both H55 fan and the Fury X fan. Both are single 120mm fans, and the case only supports one front 120mm intake. Then two 80mm side fans.

Ah, you make a good point. I know it didn't officially support 2x 120mm fans. I didn't realize the Fury X was a double-slot sized card. Single-width there would be space on the side, towards the front of the case to mount the Fury X cooler.....it may have needed a ziptie to hold one side in place (as the mounting holes wouldn't align), but alas, double-width card leaves pretty much zero space to the side, and maybe 2" to the front.

 

[marcooli0]

That case won't be able to house both H55 fan and the Fury X fan. Both are single 120mm fans, and the case only supports one front 120mm intake. Then two 80mm side fans.

Right now, this feels like the best build for me (although please do point out if there are any apparent flaws with the components I have listed): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PRT2XL

I've included the 970 in the list, even though I already own it, for better perspective. My plan would be to eventually upgrade the RAM and further down the line upgrade to an i7 (for music software purposes, but probably won't happen for a long time).

 

[loki1944]

Absolutely avoid liquid cooling if you're planning on taking it as carry-on.