Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 Render Speed

I thought this version might be faster on the rendering speeds. I'm still getting like 4 or 5 to 1 ration, that is, it takes 5 minutes of processing time to every 1 minute of video exported.
How are all you doing as far as speed goes?
Is the regular version of Premiere, rather than elements, faster, that is, is it taking advantage of 64 bit processing and/or GPU processing? I just want speeeeeeeeeeed!
Note: Processing: Max HD setting on camera, Program setting; tried a couple and makes not much of a difference.
MB: EVGA X58 SLI
CPU: Intel Core i7 920
RAM: DDR3 6GB
HDD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB
GPU: EVGA GeForce 9800GT
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Camcorder: Sony HDR-SR12

Rendering speed will be dependent on a couple of factors: one's system, and the formats involved.
As for PrPro CS4.2, using its Adobe Media Encoder is pretty fast, but the program is still 32-bit. CS5 WILL be 64-bit.
If one is Encoding to MPEG, an nVidia CX card will offer full GPU processing. This speeds up the process, but comes with a very high price tag. Note that "MPEG" covers a lot of file formats, and not all will have a pure .MPEG extension.
For your system, you will see improvements if you add two more fast internal HDD's. Three is the basic setup for NLE work. In a perfect system, one would have something like the following:
C:\ smaller, very fast SATA II (no partitions) for OS, and programs only
D:\ larger, fast SATA II for Project files and Scratch Disks
E:\ RAID in the 0-family (no redundency) Video media files only*
F:\ RAID in the 0-family (no redundency) Audio media files only*
G:\ RAID in the 0-family (no redundency) Render/Export files only*
Good luck,
Hunt
* These would be handled by a dedicated hardware controller w/ on-board cache

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