Starting out with Armory - can I make it go faster? Does anyone know of a way to make Armory do an initial sync any faster?  I've downloaded the blockchain but so far it's been processing/synchronizing with the network for 17 hours, and it claims it has 11 hours more to go, but I suspect it will be even longer than that.  

I have a first generation Core I5 processor, running Windows 10.

I notice that bitcoind is capping out at around ~48% CPU usage, so it only seems to be using two cores.  Any way of tweaking this to use more CPU, or go faster in general?
Unfortunately there is no solution for that.
You could try to download the blockchain externally but, it's not recommended given that you would not verify if the content is legit.
Take a look at a specific topic related to your question
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1310261.0