I've seen American review sites (GamersNexus) review it and give a $ value, so it seem like they probably do.Also what about the licensing fees to pay Asetek to use their patent on the CPU block for a AIO - any pump in the CPU block in the block has to pay Asetek for their patent use (if they sell into the US) now I don't know if Thermalright are selling to the USA - the patent is a USA one but if you have to sell in the USA you havew to pay them to cover every single unit you make, regardless of what region it goes too, but if Thermalright don't sell into the US, then they could be circum-venting that patent fee, which I believe Asetek do make a lot of money on. It's an interesting topic
You do have to wonder how they're doing it so cheap, maybe just an early strategy to get a foothold in the AIO market?
And I'm not saying the Thermalright AIO will have as good reliability as the more established manufacturers, but we don't know they wont. Also us customers don't know the longevity of any AIO until it's been on the market for a few years. But by then they're probably not selling it any more or are about to replace it or if it is still going is it competitive with the newer AIO on the new chips? And just because Lian Li (for example) made one or two good AIOs does that mean you can just trust one of the new ones?
So hard to know what to do as a consumer, but that extends beyond AIOs...