Several Online retailers have started listing Intel's Upcoming Sandy Bridge-E Processors which are nowavailablefor Pre-Orders along with X79 (LGA 2011) based Motherboards which have also startedappearingfor Pre-Orders. The Sandy Bridge-E Processorsavailableinclude the three models listed below:

Core i7 3960X (Details here)Core i7 3930K (Details here)Core i7 3820 (Details here)

The 3960X which is the flagship model of the Sandy Bridge-E platform is listed for 1,226US$ while the original retail price is 1000US$, The ProcessorEngineeringSample of the chip was alsoavailablea month ago on a Chinese Online store for 2000US$.

If you think the Pre-Order Price for 3960X is a bit high you might wanna check out the second model "Core i7 3930K" which is going forUS$912 in China andUS$776 in UK, The original price for the Six Core Unlocked chip would be 583$ when it finally hits store 2 weeks later.

The Core i7 3820 is alsoavailableforUS$550, The processor was delayed till Q1 2012 and the original price for the Quad Core chip is 294$. Intel has also detailed that only a handful of 3960X and 3930K's would beavailableat launch since the current models are based on the older C2 stepping and Intel is now preparing C3 stepping of the Sandy Bridge-E processors, Another D Stepping is also rumored to come around Q2/Q3 2012.

A few motherboards have also started appearing which includes high end X79 based boards such as ASUS's recently revealed Rampage IV Extreme which isavailablefor an insane price of US$945 (Motherboard detailed here) while the MSI'sX79A-GD65 8D isavailablefor US$472 (Motherboard detailed here).

You can check out pricing details of Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors over here.