Choppy playback even when rendered.

I'm having an odd issue with the latest version of PPro CC, where even when rendered my playback at full or 1/2 resolution is incredibly choppy to the point that it's really unwatchable (the audio plays back fine though). I don't recall having this issue before the 2014 update so I may reinstall PPro, but I wanted to see if anyone else had similar issues before I went ahead and did that.
My PC specs are an 8 core i7-3820, 64GB's of Ram, and an Nvidia GTX670. My PC should be more than able to handle this video playback even when unrendered. I mainly work on short 2-5 minute videos using 1080p footage at 23.97fps.

I've tried enabling and disabling CUDA playback too and it doesn't seem to effect it at all.

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