W530 Quadro K2000m and Premiere Pro CS6

Question

Hi all,
I have a W530 with i7, Q K2000m, 32gb ram and 3 interal drives (1msata ssd, 2 hgst 7k1000 1tb in the other two bays). I don't know whether I have an issue or not, but:
1) CUDA acceleration is enabled. So we're OK in this.
2) When I assemble a few clips together, although the render line is yellow, after a few seconds, the videos start becoming choppy. So, I was wondering how can this because I am only editing a 720p timeline and I have not graded anything yet. Just warp stabilizer on some clips and some of them (since I shot at 60p) are slowed down to 24p.
3) When I run GPU-Z, I am only seeing a 8-15% GPU load rate.
4) Because I can't reverse time and stabilize at the same time, I stabilized a clip on another sequence and then nested that sequence in my main sequence. Now, when I reverse that nested sequence...I get a blank screen UNLESS I kill the hardware acceleration and switch to CPU only (this seems to be a Premiere Pro issue)
5) I did everything possible to make sure that the Quadro card was working. I turned everything to "Performance NVIDIA graphics) in the NVIDIA control panel. I installed the latest drivers from NVIDIA the day before yesterday. I even flashed my BIOS to the latest downloadabale from Lenovo's System Update.
Am I missing something? Or is the card just underclocked and under-powered on purpose? Why can it not run at beyond 15% load when the clips are choppy on playback?
You may noticed I am a bit frustrated...but hey...I love the machine so I hope I am missing something that I can set up to make it all run smoothly again.
Many thanks for any ideas, guidance.
PS: All captured clips are in the 1st HDD on the main bay and the scratch/preview disk is the 2nd HDD on the CD drive. Premiere is running from the mSATA SSD (Plextor M5M 256GB)
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Answer 1

I don't have Premiere, so I can't see by comparison what happens on my own W530 which only has a K1000m.  I also don't know if your symptoms are due to hardware or sofware (i.e. Premiere itself).  Do you have another machine of your own to try the same experiment against, to see what GPU usage measures at and whether the visual results are seemingly as poor as you describe on your W530, or are they much better visual results and much higher performing as measured?
Aside from our both doing something in common, to compare results, I just took a look at two video applications on my own W530: (a) VideoReDo TV Suite 5 editing both 720p and 1080i copy-freely WTV recorded videos made by Windows Media Center (on my HTPC), and (b) Windows Media Center running on the W530 and playing both of these 720p and 1080i WTV recordings.  I opened GPU-Z while the video apps were running to monitor the GPU load.  I also have Aida64 running, which also displays presumably the same "GPU utilization".  I expect VRD to use less GPU horsepower than Windows Media Center uses.
Also, here is my Lenovo Power Manager setup, with my i7-3720QM 8GB W530/K1000m 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD powered into the wall.  The display is external 24" Eizo S2433W monitor (miniDP->DP from the W530), 1920x1200, laptop screen OFF.  I'm running "discrete graphics" in the BIOS, using "retail" nVidia driver 347.88.
And here's Windows Media Center playing a 1080i video (which involves hardware de-interlacing), and showing 57% GPU load through GPU-Z.  Note that with Aida64 (on the right side of the image) it also shows 55% GPU utilization, so this number is clearly correct.
And the same clip being "edited" using VideoRedo.  Note that GPU usage is now down to 35% (at least at this instant), as I expected.  I'm quite sure hardware de-interlacing is also taking place.
Video performance with both apps is superb.
Anyway, without our being able to duplicate the other's test situation, I don't know what to suggest that you haven't already done.  Unfortunately I don't have Premiere to try.