GPU and Open GL rendering in Premiere CS4

This is my workstation: A 64 Bit PC with Intel Quad Core i7 Extreme Edition - 3.2 Ghz; ASUS P6T Deluxe/OC Palm Motherboard; 2 Seagate Cheetah HD -147 Go SAS 15Krpm - Raid 0; PNY Quadro CX NVIDIA PCIE 1.5 Go; 24 GB of Ram - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1333 MHZ; Blu-ray 8X BD/DVDRW 16X SATA LS; Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit; Adobe Production Premium CS4.
Lately, I've had some problems with rendering in Premiere. It seemed very slow and sluggish and I don't know why.
Now, this might sound obvious to a lot of people but. my question is: How do I optimize and use the GPU and Open GL in the best and most efficient way in PREMIERE PRO CS4 and After Effects CS4? What is the best configuration?
Thanks for any help possible. DMVNPRO

Thanks a lot for your feedback, guys. Appreciate.
I omitted to mention that I actually have an extra 1 TB hard drive for the clips.
I've been using my system for about 2 years with 12 Gigs of RAM and everything was going rather well.
In May of 2011, I upgraded to 24 Gigs because I wanted to upgrade to CS5.5.
I'm still running with CS4 but I forgot to mention that I use the Raid 0 hard drives specifically
to use the Adobe software. All of my footage, music, graphics and photographs are on the 1 TB HD.
Also, I only work on one project at a time.
When I'm finished, I transfer everything on an external HD.
And I do defrag frequently and regularly. Not with the Windows defragger.
It sucks. I use Defraggler, a free program that's very efficient.
I had my workstation built from the ground up from reading about
a similar configuration in Videomaker. And the tests were very impressive.
I only have problems with Premiere. Premiere came with the nVidia Quadro CX
graphic card as part of a bundle. So I upgraded from there to the Adobe Production Premium Suite CS4.
I remember that I had to reinstall Premiere once. Sometimes it just stops working and
literally disappears. Frequently, the rendering is so slow, it's frustrating.
I never had an issue with After Effects, which I use a lot. I also use Photoshop frequently. No problem there.
Could it be that Premiere in some way has been corrupted?
Again, I appreciate your feedback. Thanks again. Daniel Martel

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