Disabling one processor

Hi,
i'm a little curious about this,
is it possible to disable one processor manually from osx?
Will it consume less power (perhaps half?).
I'm asking this because i keep the macpro on all the day,
but only a few hours i need to work hard with all the 4 cores.
I'm not crazy, simply my energy bill this month was a bit too high and i think the guilty was the macpro.

you can use apples chud tools to disable one or more cores: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14358
when you install it youll get a 'hardware' or 'processor' prefpane which will let you disable the last 3 cores of the mac. im not sure whether this actually turns them off, but they certainly get no tasks to carry out so it should use less power. you can also keep your work to just the boot drive and any other drives you have in there will spin down, thatll use less power. i cant think of much else to do really.. turn the brightness down on your monitor if its tft, those backlights eat up power. oh yea, and turn off airport and bluetooth as well as the ethernet ports if youre not using them.

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