Adobe mercury playback engine question

Hi all. Firts of all, sorry for the forum nickname, the registration process drove me crazy with the unavailable names... :-)
I own a post production studio and one of my workstations is a quad core (9400 Intel cpu) equipped with 4GBs of DDR3 RAM at 1333 MHz. Recently I read about the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine.I usually work with 720p and 1080i HDV material and often with 1920x1080 at 35 Mbps and also AVC-Intra 100 (100 Mbps). If I install the Adobe Production Premium suite on the above workstation (under Windows 7 64bit), raise my RAM amount to 8 GBs and also install an Nvidia Quadro FX 3800 graphics card, how much will my workstation benefit from these changes? For example, how many video tracks with applied picture-in-picture effects will I be able to play realtime? Or is the above graphics card only beneficial when installed in an 8-core Xeon system?
Thanks a lot in advance
Themis Gyparis
Athens, Greece

Below are the results of the test.... (sorry, I couldn't find a way to attach a file)
HappyTrimmer,   Personal or Computer ID
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58, secs MPEG Elapsed Time
1338, secs Rendering Time
Intel,    CPU Manufacturer
Quad Core 9400,    CPU Model
2500 MHz (7.5 x 333),    GHz CPU speed
unknown,    Number of CPU chips
4,    Total Number of Cores
4 GBs,    GB RAM
CS4 (4.2),    APP Version PPBM4 DV
WinXP Pro,    OSVersion
SATA,    OS Disk Interface
250,    GB OS Disk Capacity
7200,    OS Disk Speed
SATA,    Project Disk Interface
750,    GB Project Disk Capacity
7200,    Project Disk Speed
SATA,    Preview Disk Interface
750,    GB Preview Disk Capacity
7200,    Preview Disk Speed
SATA,    Output Disk Interface
750,    GB Output Disk Capacity
7200,    Output Disk Speed
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512,    Graphics Board
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--- OpenGL Info ---
Vendor: Intel Inc.
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Monitor 0 properties -
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