Thanks for all the input. I saw that the machine was bogged down with some other things, so set it up on another machine last night. An Intel Core i9 (12th gen) with 128GB RAM and NVMe disk for storage and it finished it in around 8 hours.

Not entirely sure what the issues were with the first machine, but hey ho, at least it seems to be working now.

Hi all,

I've downloaded Bitcoin Core and set it up to download the blockchain (the full one since Armory apparently wants it),
It started out saying that it would take something like 5 years until complete, but has now gone down and stabilized at
2 years and 2 weeks.

That's.... A tad long, to be honest. Is there another way to quicken things up a bit?

It's running on an 11th gen i7 with 16GB RAM and a 1000 mbps internet connection.

//Jaggen