Premiere Pro, Photoshop & Graphics Cards in SLI or Crossfire

Simple question for those who are hardware knowledgable,
Can a computer system that has dual graphics cards setup in SLI or Crossfire run Premiere Pro and Photoshop CS5.
I am not looking at whteher it will get bonuses in editing or anything, just can it run?
According to some on these forums it cannot at all but I am currently running both PS and Premiere Pro on a system with dual GTX 460 without issues.
Do anyone else have dual cards in SLI or Xfire running these programs?

Hi,
I've tried this week installing two 6850 graphics cards with crossfire and using the latest Catalyst Control Centre (ver 13.something) and after effects worked fine but Premiere kept crashing big time. I then tried one graphics card with CCC (ver 13.something) and it still crashed. I had to use the CCC version 12 something that came with the graphics card in order to even get one card working and that doesn't seem to support the crossfire.
Ouch is my response, anyone got any ideas?

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Hi Duca,
Sorry to hear about your issues.
I use Adobe Premiere Pro since the subscriptions began.
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aka, would buying a gtx 680 4gb make sense (to you) for a $2,500 USD build?
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