Which CUDA card for a Mac Pro?

I've recently started using Premiere Pro CS6. My current setup does not make use of the Mercury playback engine.
Can anyone recommend an appropriate CUDA graphics card that would allow this?
Ideally I don't want to spend more than £300.
Here is a breakdown of my setup:
Mac Pro 4,1:
2 x 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (2 processors, 8 cores)
32GB RAM (DDR3 1066Mhz)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM)
Black Magic Decklink HD Extreme 3D+
x4 3TB 7200rpm Internal hard drives (i.e. 1 root drive and x3 for footage)
OS X Version 10.8 Mountain Lion
Thanks.

Ok, everything went in/installed ok. A couple of worrying moments when initially I couldn't work out how to release the old graphics card... thank you Apple for putting a release button on the fan! Then the text editor hung whilst adding my new card to Premiere's Cuda list. But a force quit solved that and the settings held.
But when I finally rebooted and opened up Premiere, sure enough the Mercury GPU hardware option was there in the Playback settings.
So excellent news...... yes almost. I've been playing around with putting various effects on clips and trying to spot the difference, which should be obvious, right? Well it's not. So far I haven't found anything that it's made a difference on. I've tried switching the GPU option on and off and applying the same cluster of effects to duplicate clips and the render times are the same, as is the playback smoothness in the programme monitor (ie the same degree of jitter before a render).
In fact worse than that in the 30 mins or so I've been playing around Premiere has crashed twice when saving/closing the project. Possibly this is down to all the preview files being deleted each time I switch the MPE from GPU to software only (and vice versa), but who knows.
I guess I need to spend more time with it set only to GPU to ensure it's stable. But can anyone suggest a test I can do where I can definitely see a difference the GPU option is making vs. software only?

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