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xTrixieHD
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Well, i've had this alienware 17 for like a year now, and then just today, i opened up task manager and saw this, is this normal, i use chrome btw. not firefox. (Ram eater)

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with a desktop like that, I bet that ram eats like a motherfu*ker 

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no but all jokes aside, check if you anti-virus is scanning or it can be a virus 

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That's one hell of a messy desktop ):

 

How many tabs are you running? If it's just a few, with no other programs, it's not really normal. 

 

Look in your processes tab for any program taking up a load of RAM, then find out what it is. 

 

For reference, with Windows 7, I use around 6.2GB with 3 Chrome windows (each with about 10 tabs open), 2 videos, hotspot shield, MusicBee and a load of Windows Explorer windows open. 

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That's one hell of a messy desktop ):

 

How many tabs are you running? If it's just a few, with no other programs, it's not really normal. 

 

Look in your processes tab for any program taking up a load of RAM, then find out what it is. 

 

For reference, with Windows 7, I use around 6.2GB with 3 Chrome windows (each with about 10 tabs open), 2 videos, hotspot shield, MusicBee and a load of Windows Explorer windows open. 

Well, i've got one chrome window open.

And yes, i do use all those things on my desktop daily, beleive it or not

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“I was the rebellious one.” - Maxene Andrews

Damn that's a nice hair flick 1981 Simon LeBon!

"Nothing gets you going like a juicy pussy!" - ashens

"what sorry blender isn't that what you make smoothe?" - pathole

"Yeah, well i'm a member of the waffen ss who lives with hitler in the bunker And i like modern music!" - Hans krebs loves fish

"We won world war 2 for a reason" - ironic shitposting is still shitposting

"Fight shooting game with pretty girls" - megami strike 1943

"You've got wood in an evo" - moog

"oxygofishafacematerialsotosis" - linus

"Vehicle stimulator" - crappy russian mod site

"The power table" - Nerdcubed

"Nuclear spaghetti" - ashens

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Well, i've got one chrome window open.

And yes, i do use all those things on my desktop daily, beleive it or not

Try running a virus/malware scan if there's no program in particular that's using so much RAM. If nothing comes up, you may want to reinstall Windows, or clear your startup folder. 

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Try running a virus/malware scan if there's no program in particular that's using so much RAM. If nothing comes up, you may want to reinstall Windows, or clear your startup folder. 

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"Nothing gets you going like a juicy pussy!" - ashens

"what sorry blender isn't that what you make smoothe?" - pathole

"Yeah, well i'm a member of the waffen ss who lives with hitler in the bunker And i like modern music!" - Hans krebs loves fish

"We won world war 2 for a reason" - ironic shitposting is still shitposting

"Fight shooting game with pretty girls" - megami strike 1943

"You've got wood in an evo" - moog

"oxygofishafacematerialsotosis" - linus

"Vehicle stimulator" - crappy russian mod site

"The power table" - Nerdcubed

"Nuclear spaghetti" - ashens

FRANKIE SAYS RELAX!!!!



 

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Some programs may be caching data.

 

A few programs I use rarely every need more than 200MB, but its not uncommon for them to use 3+ GB.

On my companies servers, each one has 32GB of RAM, nearly 20GB of which is only used for caching.

 

Unless you are running at 80% or greater usage, i wouldnt really worry about it

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If you log out and log back into windows, how high does your ram usage gets?

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