Make Spotlight (& the OS) use more CPU power?

I've noticed that a lot of the time that the OS, specifically when using Spotlight doesn't use all of it's power.
For example I have iStat menus displaying the CPU usage. When I do Spotlight searches I'll start typing but before I can finish typing my search Spotlight will start grinding away, not letting me finish what I want to type. But looking at the CPU usage in the menu bar both cores are only at around 50%. I'll have to wait for Spotlight to calm down before I can finish typing my search.
I looked around in System Preferences > Energy Saver > Options & set Processor Performance to highest but it seems a lot of the time the OS doesn't use as much CPU power as it could.
Is there any way to make the OS, specifically when using Spotlight use more CPU power?

Spotlight will use as much CPU as it needs - It really doesn't take that much unless it's drawing image previews, etc.... The other-and probably more important- issue is hard disk speed and whether or not the disk is doing anything else when you initiate the search.

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