Is Premiere Pro CS5.5 really using my CUDA Card?

My setup is a dual Xeon E5420, 32GB RAM and multiple RAID 0 Volumes (1 fo OS, SSD Based,, 1 for Media files and another for Scratch ).
I have two GPUs, one old Quadro FX1700 and one brand new GeForce GTX 580.
I see the option for Mercury Playback enable on Premiere, and I see that the Red Line on the timeline turns Yellow, enabling me for realtime playback,, but when I playback my video (from Canono EOS 7D), the GPU CPU gets hit only about 5%,,
I wouldnt mind, only for the fact that I put three layers of video on my timeline, do the same expirement and the playback is super chunky at 2x 4x etc,, and my GPU CPU (the GTX 580) is only at 10% max.
I see my XEON are at almost 100% in both cases (Mercury and No Mercury).
I been banging my head for days to see what the problem is,, I have a three monitor set up and I event try only one monitor, disconecting the Old Quadro FX1700 and elaving only the GTX 580,, with one monitor,, same thing.
I played with settings on the NVIDIA Driver,(I have the latest one),, nothing.
The playback works,, but is not near the "advertised magic bullet" on the Adobe Videos,, I see my XEONs getting hit a lot and my playback at 2x and above is horrible.
Did I meantion that I dont have any effect on the timeline,, just my three layers on MOV videos from my ESO 7D?
I have fast HDs and Raid 0,, the only think I could think of is that the XEON E5420 are a little old,, but come on,, it is just 3 years old, and they are dual XEON,, it should be ok for this,, it is only three layers of 24fps HD 1080 ,, about 1 minute each.
I dont want to go an upgrade the whole system to find out that I missed something on the config.
If anybody can advise me, I will really apreciate it.
Thanks!
manny.

I recently installed a GTX 580 from EVGA (3 GB Ram), costed my $ 500,, and I wanted to see how much performance gain I got.
For now I was just testing playback with mutliple layers,, I know some effects are not CUDA-enable, thats why I did the test withouth any effect at all,, like I say,, just three layers (the top two scaled down on top of the main one in the background).
When I have only one layer the playback is great, fast,, but when I put three layers of video the playback becomes chunky after forward 2x of more,, and backwards is more noticeable.
I know Im not using the correct terminology, Im not a profressional editor, this is just family stuff and I since I already had a workstation for other reasons I though I could use it for Premiere.
It looks to me that I have a bottleneck somewhere on my system (Im concerned about my XEONs E5420) because they show a lot of utilization even when Mercury Playback is enabled.
I have no reference so I dont know if my system should perform well or not.
I did the PPBM5 test (little confusing to me because it seems to be configured for people that have media, projects and scratch disk all on the same HD and I have them in three RAIDs so I was running in circles making it work)
I sent the results and my system scored 377.
377
2012-02-09 11:58:35
Base2008PT1
Desktop
Dell
T7400
Intel
Xeon E5620
2.5
2
8
32
425
3.41
198
94
123
156
10
15.6
5.5
GTX 580
SATA
128
SSD
2
Raid 0
SATA
128
SSD
2
Raid 0
4
DEL SAS i6
Thanks guys for the advise!!
manny.

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