How do I maximize performance?

I bought a new Mac Pro back in July (with Snow Leopard), with 7 GB of RAM. Later, I upped the memory with 16 GB of Kingston RAM. I also setup a 1 GB RAM drive, which I use whenever I can.
Using the Activity Monitor, and using the CPU Usage view, I have only found two programs which pushes this computer to its absolute limit: DAZ 3D's Bryce 7 Pro and Wondershare's DVD Ripper. These two peg the CPU Usage graph. Marcel Bresink's Hardware Monitor also shows that these two programs (Bryce and DVD Ripper) also push the CPUs to their thermal limit. My UPS backup system concurs: these two programs are requiring 100W+ more power than normal.
But all other apps do not use the CPU to its full power, not by a long shot. So my question is: Is this something I can change? In other words, make every program utilize the power of this computer to its full potential? If so, how?
Or is it the way the creator of that app wrote their software (in other words, it is beyond my control)?
Any ideas, advise, suggestions, insights, etc., into this matter is appreciated! I just want to maximize my "bang for the buck" for this computer system.

It is beyond yours, beyond just the OS, and is harder to implement a full multi-core/multi-threaded approach to the OS and applications. Putting a label and calling it something (like Grand Central) is just... a concept or idea/ideal that is more ellusive and harder to achieve.
Each new OS and each new compiler, and then the time to buy, implement, and learn to use and tweak, but whether any given task or process will gain from all that? games and programs still rule is: GHz rule. Which is why a single 6-core processor at 3.3 - 4.5GHz so it doesn't have to share data across a link, and runs at highest speed.
10.6.x fixed some problems with hyper-threading on the 2009 Mac Pro that was eating process cycles, pushing up core temps needlessly, by NOT letting cores and threads "sleep". It is and was caused by old rules and code and techniques that kept the processor working when it shouldn't. In the time it takes to lauch an app or open a document your hyper-threading processor can jump from 35*C to 65* or higher, and audio tasks, like iTunes but also others, were spiking core processor temps into 80s. Not good.
Running at 100% isn't always a sign of being efficient. In fact you might want to keep one core open and free for system messages for instance. And while hyperthreading can improve use of processor by 20-30% it comes at the cost of more heat and power, so while that 4-core has 8-thread capability, it is about like having a 5th core.
The 6-core 3.33GHz is and has been the "sweet spot" right now in Mac Pros being offered. Any 2010 model can be fitted with W3680 or 3690 (single socket) for $620. Dual requires higher priced X5680 parts that can run $3K and up.
Some made the 'mistake' of being more but slower processors in the hope of efficiency, or cheaper to add more RAM.
Your use of 1GB RAM disk isn't always efficient use. Sometimes though high density 8GB DIMMs are, and for graphic intensive work, 3 x 8GB is another "sweet spot."
Booting in 64-bit kernel mode is preferable as well, as long as all the drivers are 64-bit, as well as plug-ins (you see more every day from Adobe and others).
A good place to visit if you have not already:
http://www.macperformnaceguide.com
http://www.synopsys.com/Company/Publications/SynopsysInsight/Pages/Art3-Multicor ePA-IssQ1-11.aspx?cmp=Insight-I1-2011-Art3
http://hothardware.com/Tags/multicore.aspx

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