A while back I was bemoaning the availability of modding components in the UK, and theorised that if the bits I wanted weren't that easily available from online retailers, not available at all at stores, and just too expensive from eBay when you add in the shipping costs, then maybe Computer Fairs were the answer, and resolved to go to one forthwith.

Boy, was that theory a load of Tottenham ... a great big pile of steaming Hotspur I'd made up a shopping list of bits I wanted (UV fans, a black CDRW, a Fan Controller, a UV FD cable, UV Sleeving, fan grilles, a basic PSU, etc etc), but all I came away with for my next project rig was a black floppy drive & some red cable ties ... really not worth the £2 entry fee.

Not all was lost though - I came away with something that may come in handy for a future project: how beige is this?!

It's an ATX case of indeterminate manufacturer, unused, but I'd guess it'd been kicking around for quite a while if the state of the box was anything to go by. I'd been toying with the idea of a dual PSU rig for a while - not that I need two PSUs, I just fancied doing it because I haven't done it yet.

I had been looking around for suitable candidates in the case department, but the number of genuinely dual PSU capable towers I'd seen could be counted on one finger. Not wanting to pay the price that was going for, I did look around at cases with enough space in them for two PSUs, but wasn't prepared to pay the £70+ for something I was going to have to take a welding set to. This one however cost the princely sum of £20 ... including two bizarrely huge & ugly "feet"

Removable motherboard tray too - bonus!

To be honest, I've got no idea what I'm going to do to it (or when), and storing it in the meantime is going to be a problem, but what the hell - it was a bargain

Just one problem - no fasteners of any description came with the case - so I'll have a real "round peg in a square hole" problem when it comes to installing a motherboard. Anyone got anything suitable?