AE CC 2014 Best Render Engine Setup

So we're a group of 5 editors who use AE and Premiere. I also use Cinema 4D and used their Net Render (now Team Render) to great advantage. Since AE is pretty heave in terms of resources, it's not practical for use to use each other's Macs for render while we're working on other projects.
We're all on the same network for starters so that's one thing off the list. Would it be a good idea/doable to build one turbo-render-monster PC on the network that only renders our jobs? I know a network of computers can be faster, but then there's all the asset transfer, bandwidth and different CPU speeds, etc. What sort of PC would qualify as a render monster and make a serious dent in our rendering?
Most of our jobs are :30 sec. projects, lots of motion graphics, some effects, motion blur. Also some longer-form stuff too in the 1 – 2 min variety, but these are mostly Premiere edits.

dear rick,
of course you are right. for the actual masters i use motionpng or motionjpg . sometimes cineform. for shorter clips tiff-sequences.
but this does not answer my question. in the current case i have to have "master-like" files (for re-encoding) that are still playable in most players and on most devices. therfore h264.
but actually my question is not about which codec to use for different purposes (had long research- and discussion-sessions about that already).
the question is: why do the seemingly same encoders in ae and ame (quicktime with h264 with qualityslider 0-100) deliver so much different results?
i'm trying to figure out, whats the difference between ae-rendering and ame-rendering. how do i deal with rendersettings (effects, proxies etc) in ame? which one is better to use? and why the fudge is there a difference of 1:10 with the same settings in the different solutions????
thx...

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