I have to render to watch smooth playback help!

I meet all the requirements so hardware isn't the problem. Plus I can watch it smoothly in the monitor and once rendered, what's going on!
Is there a way I can render it all once and for all, so I don't have to render every 2 seconds?
I've tried every single sequence preset and that didn't work either.
And yes I have the new update, hardware or software, or whatever isn't the problem. I've been working with Premiere Pro for 6 years now.
Please help.
thanks, I really appreciate it, is very important

My previous computer (Intel D875PBZ motherboard with Pentium4 3.2Ghz and ATI Radeon 9600xt and 2 Gig DDR 400 Ram and 2 hard drives and PPro3) worked OK with standard definition AVI from a tape camcorder... albeit a bit slow when it came time to have Encore transcode the AVI to create a DVD (so I would just start the process before I went to bed and it was done and the ISO was created when I got up in the morning)
When I decided to switch to HD and CS5, I read every hardware message there was for about 6 months... even before CS5 was released... to decide what hardware to buy to build a new computer (link in my last message)
Knowing ahead of time that a highly compressed codec was going to require a "strong" computer, I made sure to buy the best I could afford... and I have not been disappointed in the advice I've received from this forum
To the OP - refuse to believe all you want, but you have people here who use PPro to make a living (not me, I'm just a home hobbyist) plus the people who wrote the http://ppbm5.com/ benchmark all telling you that you need a more powerful computer to EFFECTIVELY use PPro5
Yes, you can use PPro5 with a "minimal" computer... as long as you are prepared to wait and render and wait some more
But, if you don't want to wait and render and wait some more you need to start saving to build a better computer
Added - as far as editing a highly compressed -vs- less compressed format...
The DV AVI files I create for my wife's computer are about 13Gig per hour, so the files are large but the CPU requirements are much less... for her to edit, I simply bought a 1Terabyte hard drive for all of her video files (that will give her several years of video file space at her usual 5-15 minutes per subject)
The MTS/MP4 files are actually smaller at about 12Gig per hour, for HiDef, so while the data transfer requirement is similar, those files require a MUCH faster and more powerful CPU to decode during editing
Her Flip camera was about $140 and my Canon Vixia was about $1k but they BOTH require a strong computer to edit natively without conversion
So, Hunt is right... people buy an inexpensive camera like the Flip and are then surprised that their old computer is not up to the job of editing such a "consumer" format

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