Quote - I don't own an i5
But It's my understanding Core i5 will recognize the processors as having four core, not 8 as the i7s do, which would greatly diminish render performance compared to an i7 IMHO

See the article at this link for more info. Esp. the part about mutithreading.

 

In the article says: "Hyper-threading is a technology used by Intel to simulate more cores than actually exist on the processor. While Core i7 products have all been quad-cores, they appear in Windows as having eight cores. This further improves performance when using programs that make good use of multi-threading."

I wish someone tested that processor with Vue; this is what I would like to know...does Vue see 8 cores a' 2 Ghz?  (8 x 2 Ghz ?)

I would need an answer from a person who owns such a new quad core system.