Sapphire 9700& Etrontech chips!????

[Narmania]

Yesterday i bought Sapphire 9700 pro dark pcb..
and i noticed that the chips are made by etrontech and not samsung as i saw in the reviews, i mailed the question to the sapphire tech support and this is the answer i recieved:
"Dear Customer,



The black board version is another version of the Sapphire Radeon 9700PRO card, this is a legit version produce from Sapphire, it just uses a different board number along with different memory brand but the memory chips will have to perform up to the PRO level to be consider a PRO card, so do not worry about the memory brand.


Tech "

I am so mad now, i spent so much money and i could buy hercules or gigabyte with samsung chips and i bought Sapphire with etrontech chips, does anyone know wether these chips are good? or i just should throw this card and demand my money back ?

 

[ianmills]

Look in the Rage3D forums: http://www.rage3d.com/board/
Search for "Eltrontech."
Several people seem to be having problems with this ram on their 9700's. Those that do bitch loudly. Of course the people that have no problems with this ram will never complain, so it's difficult to tell what the truth is.

Anyways, have a look for yourself. There's quite a bit of info listed.

 

[Narmania]

First of all let me thank you for your reply -
I read all those forums, and i know that etrontech is very famous memory among an old cards like gf 3 and stuff..
The question is if the samsung chips are better..
i had gigabyte 9700 pro with samsung chips. and now sapphire 9700 pro with etrontech memory chips and i am getting higher scores on benchmarks but still.. my question is wether etrontech chips are better than samsung or i should replace the card for another samsung chip based card ?