My power supply recently died. I smelled something burning in my computer, so i checked it out. I opened up my psu and saw a stringy thing coming off of one of the capacitors. Before i buy a new psu, i want to know if it's possible any other parts broke down. The led on the motherboard stayed on...
It would only be 16, dont know where you got the 32. You said that it would be 32 which made me think that you thought it would do both at the same time.
x2 3800+ is good enough if you know how to overclock. Make sure you dont get the single core 3800. Get an antec or something with 480w or more. With that kind of budget you could definitely get a cheap 7800gtx isntead of a gt, the extra 4 pipes are worth it.
Your cpu isn't that great, in fact my cpu is better. Athlon xp 2800 @ 2.37ghz. But i dont think that's the problem your 3dmark03 score looks fine. It's probably the new patch, or your os.