Screen Flickering in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4

I experience screen flickering in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 when I move my mouse around on the screen. Basically any mouse movement will create flickering. The more and faster I move my mouse the more flickering occurs.
System Specs
- Windows 7 64bit Ultimate
- Intel i7 3.2GHz Extreme
- ASUS Rampage II Extreme Mobo
- Corsair Dominator 6GB 1866MHz (Triple Channel)
- Dual eVGA Nvidia GTX 285 Superclocked Graphics Cards in SLI
- Dual 60GB OCZ Vertex Series SDDs in RAID0
- Corsair 1000Watt PSU
- CPU and both GPUs are water cooled
- Logitech G-15 Keyboard
- Logitech G-9 Mouse
- ASUS 26" LCD VK266H monitor (1920x1200 @ 60Hz) DVI
- I have the latest BIOS and all of the most up-to-date drivers installed for every piece of hardware.
I have photoshop set to use the maximum allowable amount of memory. The memory slider in photoshop maxes out at 3.25GB which equates to about 50% of my total system memory.
The screen flickering does not occur in any other application or game, only in Photoshop. I have tried every possible Nvidia Control Panel setting for this application, and nothing seems to have an effect on the flicker.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or any recommendations?

Aside from the potential SLI issue, you might want to study your Logitech mouse driver.
Going back a bit, several versions of the MS InteliPoint mouse driver caused just what you describe. I have not heard of this with Logitech, but did have some other issues with their SetPoint drivers. In my case, I ditched their keyboard, but kept the mouse (love it), and did away with SetPoint, using the generic driver. All functions that I needed were handled, and SetPoint was out of the equation.
Something else to look at, and good luck,
Hunt

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