Well it could be more down to the architecture than anything else that sets the limits rather than Intel deliberately trying to cut down on users taking advantage of overclocking low budget CPUs to extreme variants or above, I doubt Intel takes overclocking capabilities into account when designing a new architecture (ofc clock frequency scaling is an important part but hey they can do it using higher multis so). We might just have been lucky with Core 2 - Core i7. What I'm saying is the FSB overclocking as we're used to might just have been a coincidence and that this time it won't happen as easily. Now you could even look like it from this perspective, what if Intel was kind enough to please enthusiasts to be able to overclock further with the K variants. You then might say well why not provide unlocked multis for all parts? Well overclocking community is just too small. But i7-2500K will be cheap at least, for majority of people the K variants won't make any sense.
Makes me remind of emulator community and the common view about "speed hacks", it was just a coincidence it works, they don't code the emulator in order to be able to support them. :p
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