Hello,
I'm searching for new hardware to use Houdini. One of the requirements says, it needs to be a x64 CPU with SSE 4.2. Now I'm looking at the Wikipedia article Wiki SSE [en.wikipedia.org] and Skylake, p.e. i7 6700, is not listed under the supporting CPUs. And according to the skylake article Wiki Skylake only the Xeons support SSE4.2.
Does this really mean, that I can't use the i7 6700? Meaning I have to fall back on a Haswell 4th generation i7 CPU, if I don't want to spend the money for a Xeon?
Thanks for any clarification.

The list on the wiki probably wasn't updated to include the (relatively new) Skylake CPUs. Intel's spec sheet for the Skylake generation shows that it supports SSE 4.2.

Thank you very much. Should have come up with that myself - the official spec sheet.

I use a 6700K with Houdini; I can confirm its compatibility.