So the results weren't as good as I were hoping, but certainly what I expected to see. VE PRO/MIR PRO didn't really respond very much to the additional threads. I moved it from 4 threads to 8 and only seen about a 10% CPU reduction when adding 2 more cores/4 threads to it. I sure was hoping for more than that.
I am able to now work at 512 samples latency but I am hitting about 85-95% CPU so I won't push my machine that hard as it will run to hot. I haven't fully decided what I will do yet but I am not entirely happy with the results.
One option I have is to build the second machine I have that has a 4930K processor and use it to process MIR PRO. I just can't stand all the latency.
Maestro2be