TNT2 Ultra to Geforce2 MX?

[J2T]

Well, is it worth it to upgrade? I am on a budget here, so keep that in mind. I basically have the choice to get a new hard drive (ata66) or a new vid card. Which would you choose? Now this is mandated by my wife just so you know

 

[Shudder]

Since you have the ULTRA, hmm..

What would be your reasoning behind the upgrade? I've never personally gone that route but it doesn't seem like it would be huge to me. Don't take my word for it though.

Anand's initial GF2 MX roundup compared it to a TNT2 ultra, so you may want to check it out here.

 

[J2T]

Ok, thanks for the info. Just thought while I had the chance I could sell the TNT2 Ultra and for a little bit more money could have an MX, but was wondering if it was worth it.

 

[BFG10K]

Go for it. The GF2 MX spanks the TNT2 Ultra in terms of performance and features.

 

[Hawk]

Well, not really features, just performance I would say...though you could also get the Radeon LE, that's up to you to compare those two cards.

 

[Sunner]

Hawk, are you kidding, the MX's featureset is loads better than the Ultra's.
Its second only to the Radeon.

 

[BenSkywalker]

The GF2MX kills the TNT2Ultra as far as features are concerned, many of which are being used by the latest games.

Sunner

Its second only to the Radeon.

<cough>GeForce3<cough>

 

[vss1980]

The performance gap is noticable, but I wouldn't there is a geat margin of improvement. However the GF2 MX does have a much better feature set, and also things that could help long term like texture compression and better multi-texturing speeds, and also has T&amp;L which maybe one day will be useful.

EDIT: Referring back to the original question. HDD or graphics card? Depends which is in most need of upgrade. At the moment standard HDD sizes are tending towards 15-20 GB in size. I would say that if you are nowhere near that area of size then upgrade the HDD.