Small form factor gaming build help!!!!!!!

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ok i have two other gaming computers a custom cyberpowerpc and a custom alienware. the cyberpowerpc i am selling it because its just in the way and my alienware weighs at least 45 pounds. iwas looking to build a really small form factor pc; small enough to fit in a back pack without the monitor but i know that im either going to have to cut alot on the performance(not going to happen) or i have to have to have a really big backpack(defeats the purpose). i was looking at these specs right here:

CASE: Bitfenix prodigy-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

HARD DRIVE: western digital 500gb-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

GPU: evga superclocked 760 2gb-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

PSU: ocz modxstream pro 600w-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

RAM: corsair vengeance 8gb ddr3 1600-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

MOTHERBOARD: MSI z77ia-e53 LGA 155-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

CPU: intel core i5-3350p-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

i want to play skyrim, assasins creed 3 and black flag, battlefield 3, farcry 3 all on ultra with very playable frame rates and future games on high to medium. my alienware has a gtx 460 1gb and i can play skyrim, battlefield 3, farcry 3, gta 4 all on ultra with great fps but like i said its too heavy it has and intel i3 560(i think), watercooled, gtx 460 1 gb, 500 gb, and a 550 watt psu. the point is i want this to be portable and much better than my alienware. my first question is, are all these parts good enough to do what i want? second is, will that psu fit in the bitfenix? and third is if not, what psu will. my price limit is 1000 not including the monitor or os. please write back and help. im sorry if this is long i just wanted to make sure no stone was left unturned.
 
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You don't need a PSU in the Hadron air, it comes with it's own 500W. It will slightly limit your graphics card selection, but given how compact the case is, you probably wouldn't want anything super high end anyway.

I wasn't really suggesting you should get an R9 290, just that you had a huge flexibility in your budget. If you took the build I linked and swapped in an R9 280X or GTX770 you'd be comfortably within budget and still have something very powerful. Nothing wrong with a GTX760 if you want to keep costs down though.
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For ITX, the Prodigy case is huge. It doesn't make a lot of sense if you are trying to get down to something easy to transport (It weighs about the same as mATX tower and is no smaller, and wider).

All of your links are dead, so it's a bit hard to confirm some things, but general thoughts-
1Tb isn't much more expensive than 500Gb so you get a much better $/gigabyte ratio.
OCZ went brankrupt, and the ModXstream pro wasn't much good anyway. Not one I'd be in a rush to buy.

Also, your budget is huge for what you need. You can fit an R9 290 or something silly like that in under $1000.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2iaug

As your budget is good, the Hadron Air is worth a look. Pretty damn expensive, but very tiny.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2iavX
 
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Ok what psu would be good in the hadron air? And I know my price cap is huge but like I stated I want something that will last a bit and I bought the alienware for 600 off of a friend so I thought it was a good choice until I picked it up lol. Is the r9 290 better than the 760 sc?
 
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Ok what psu would be good in the hadron air? And I know my price cap is huge but like I stated I want something that will last a bit and I bought the alienware for 600 off of a friend so I thought it was a good choice until I picked it up lol. Is the r9 290 better than the 760 sc?
 
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You don't need a PSU in the Hadron air, it comes with it's own 500W. It will slightly limit your graphics card selection, but given how compact the case is, you probably wouldn't want anything super high end anyway.

I wasn't really suggesting you should get an R9 290, just that you had a huge flexibility in your budget. If you took the build I linked and swapped in an R9 280X or GTX770 you'd be comfortably within budget and still have something very powerful. Nothing wrong with a GTX760 if you want to keep costs down though.
 
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