Intel has finally realized that unlocking some CPUs completely is not a bad idea and it looks like it's planning to introduce some new completely unlocked CPUs.
In the first
days of June Intel plans to release Core i7 875K, which will be the first
unlocked socket LGA1156 CPU. It fits on P55 powered motherboards and it is
overclocking enabled CPU.
This means
that this CPU will allow full control over the processor frequency ratio for
the best possible overclocking results. The TDP of this CPU is 95W and your
board will need a bios update to work. It's a quad-core CPU with Turbo Boost and dual channel DDR3 1333 memory support.
We don’t know
the exact frequency but we believe that it should be close to 3.0GHz, simply as Core i7 870 works at 2.93GHz. So the logic is quite sound, when you
see the K suffix, it will mean that you are getting the completely unlocked
CPU.