Fps rate drops by 10-30 every second (every app and game)

Okay, so I am often playing games on my Mac.
From a silly 2d game to Modern Warfare 2.
And always when I play them, (Literally always), I have the fps rate up so I can see it.
And then this lag comes.. (my avg fps before the lag is around 45 on this game), and I watch it when the lag comes, and it goes down to 20, and then up to 35~, and then down to 20 again, and up to 35~, and it keeps on doing that for a painfully 5-10 minutes.
This is extremely annoying when playing Counter-Strike:Source (Yes, for mac), because when you get this lag, and you jump near an edge, or shooting, then you will miss the shot because the whole game slows down with this fps rate problem.
And it even happened when I was scrolling down with Firefox on a webpage.
And once it happened when I was watching a HD-movie on facebook.
What could it be?

(I'm the thread starter)
Wow! Finally someone with the same problem!
Are you saying that I will have to open FaceTime every time I boot the computer to activate the dual cores?
Or is it permanently activated if I open it once?
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