How much benefit would I see in After Effects render times....

I am starting to do some TV commercials for the company I work for. I am using FCP for some editing but doing most of the heavy lifting in After Effects. The commercials contain a lot of green screened images, lots of moving graphics, some sound effects and video effects like gleams, etc.
I'm rendering a :30 commercial now using Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Setting are for MPEG-2, 1920x1080i, audio 48Hz. It is taking around 4 hours to render on my current machine:
iMac 24: 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
My question is, what kind of speed improvement would I see moving to a new Quad Core 2.4GHz or 8 Core 2.4GHz MacPro?
Thanks in advance.
Lee

Set your sights higher and 3.33GHz 6-core would be one.
24-48GB RAM would be another item.
Lots of tips and ideas here though:
http://wwwmacperformanceguide.com
2,4GHz does not really shine or cut it.

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