How to maximize render times?

Hi folks,
Slowly, i'm figuring out FCX. For me, as a single user, it's not so bad.
I have a timeline consisting of 1080i HD 29.97i Surround clips - 39 mins in total.
I dropped a timecode on top as the client wants to make some editing notes.
Then I was excited - wuhoo! Let's test these boasted new rendering features of FCX.
Disappointed! I'm on my MP quad 2.66 (2009) and my cores are still only around 50-70% used. !?!?!
I had run a small test of compressor 4 and it seemed to be using all cores. Activity monitor showed them all nice and purty blue.
So what gives? I am not editing - I dropped the clips then the TC gen - that's it. I know they touted the background rendering, but I want it to go full bore baby!
Also, I'm on latest rev of SL if that matters.
this is the demo of FCx. 10.1
Cheers,
Keebler

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Also:
Premiere version, video source format, sequence settings, export settings, etc. we have nothing to go on. Please share. Screen grabs of settings can be beneficial
as was asked previously.

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Hi everybody
The story I'm going to tell you is very dramatic.
I have the following configuration :
Windows 7 64 bits
i7- 3770k
Motherboard : Asus P8Z77-M PRO
GC : Geforce GTX 660 2GO
Ram 16 go
1 SSD 240 go
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