Hello!
I’m about to upgrade my computer from an old Core 2 Quad processor over to a core i7 and I wanted to know if Cubase 6.5 benefits from having 6 cores (running vsts and effects, low latency, etc.)
Thank you 
Oh, yes
Latency will probably not be improved, but everything else will, regardless of make of processor (intel, AMD, Via) more cores mean the software and the OS can split up tasks between cores so the more cores the merrier.
Cubase 6.5 is very good at handling multiple cores
Awesome! 
I had to ask since older versions used to have problems or didn’t even care about the cores and I simply forgot to ask since Cubase 4 xD