Valve assured us that when CES 2014 rolled around, we would all receive much more information regarding the Steam Machine and its third party manufacturers. The trade show is underway, and the Steam Machine news has already begun rolling out. Valve announced its 12 current third party Steam Machine partners, and a new third-party Steam machine has been revealed.

Though the lid has not yet been completely blown off of Valve’s Steam Machine initiative, it has been barely hanging on for a while now. First, we saw iBuyPower’s take on the Steam Machine, an affordable $499 console-like box that was promised to be able to run every available game at 1080p and 60fps. The catch probably being that for the low price, iBuyPower likely meant every game available on Steam OS, which is a Linux-based platform and thus doesn’t have many powerful games to run. Following that, we saw Piixl’s Jetpack Steam Machine — a unique flat case that attaches to the back of your television and supposedly doesn’t get in the way of wall-mounting. The price of this machine starts at $1,000, and can be customized with better hardware to raise the price even higher. Finally, Valve shipped its 300 beta units and prototype controllers, showing off a powerful Machine that would cost around $1,200 to build, not counting the controller. From there, everything has been quiet on the Steam Machine front. Now that CES 2014 has begun, though, a handful of Valve’s third party partners have been revealed, as have the specs of one partner’s two Machine models.

Among the 12 partners, Alienware stands atop the mountain as the biggest name and most recognizable brand, followed by Gigabyte — a company with hardware you see all over retail outlets like Newegg. As previously mentioned iBuyPower is in the mix, as is Falcon Northwest, Origin PC, Scan Computers, Zotac, Next, Webhallen, Alternate, and Material.net.

CyberPowerPC also joined the fray, and released the specs of its two Steam Machine models. Both models are more affordable than a $1,200 affair, with model A matching iBuyPower’s $499 price tag. It’ll pack a 2GB GDDR5 Radeon R9 270 graphics card under the hood, along with an AMD A6-6400k 3.9GHz processor, 8GB of DDR3 dual-channel RAM, and a 7200RPM 500GB SATA-III hard drive. The pricier $699 model I will replace the model A’s graphics card with a 2GB GDDR5 Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, and will also replace the AMD processor with a Core i3-4330 clocked at 3.5GHz. Both models will come Steam OS and the Steam Controller, and their motherboards will be of the mITX variety with Bluetooth and 802.11 WiFi, but the $699 model I will upgrade to 802.11ac.

Either machine seems affordable compared to the components stuffed into Valve’s and Piixl’s Steam Machines, though the 500GB hard drive will certainly feel cramped, and the processors are also on the lower end. However, the Steam Machines are supposed to be upgradeable, so you should be able to replace the bits of which you aren’t too fond.

With every new Steam Machine spec reveal, we get a better idea of what Valve’s vision of the PC gaming future is like. So far, yes, they’re just standard gaming PCs with off-the-shelf parts you could build yourself — the cases being the most unique part of the rigs. However, the power of marketing — a pre-built “all-in-one PC gaming console that just plugs right into your TV” — and the monumental goodwill Valve has built over the years can do wonders for a platform that you could make yourself with minimal effort.