Graphics Card and Memory Help Please!! :)

[Phantomshade]

Howdy, newbie to the forums here but I watch LTT every night before bed and its almost like watching reruns on T.V. of you favorite show.  Anyways, I have an Asus Strix GTX 1060 6gb factory O.C. card (yes I know it's a baby but it gets the job done) that seems to be maxed on boost and memory clock whenever I boot up my PC.  I disabled most of the Windows labeled "High" applications in task manager, however I have seen no change what so ever.  I also have an issue where I see that 48% of my system memory/Ram is being used at almost all times.  The processes seem to be bit defender and the nord VPN I have to use in order to play overwatch because my university's firewall does not enjoy blizzards voice communication system.  Any and all help would be appreciated please and thank you.  

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, Phantomshade said:

The processes seem to be bit defender and the nord VPN I have to use

Have you tested by disabling these, even though you wouldn't be able to play online while they're disabled? It may be a background process that's hidden that's the actual culprit.

[Phantomshade]

4 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Have you tested by disabling these, even though you wouldn't be able to play online while they're disabled? It may be a background process that's hidden that's the actual culprit.

Just disabled both and no change.  also when i go into user in task manager I see that my user account is accounting for 30% of the total 48-50% used