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Idling at around 4 gigs of ram?

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So I'm just typing in opera, just one tab (this one) and I open up task manager, I'm at 3.8 gb of ram. I have 2x8gb sticks and I'm wondering if that's just a normal amount for a Ryzen processor, idk any other reason. 

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Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  
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P.S, how many background processes should be open?

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browsers uses a bunch. even if you close it out, it will not reallocate that ram until something asks for it.

 

its fine. i am at around the same at relative idle with just background processes.

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plus if using windows 10 it could also use a fair bit.. times mine uses just 3 to 4 gigs on idle of boot up. right now im not using much of anything and im sitting at 6 gigs idle but cause i have 16gig more ram have though more windows think its fine to use i find. when i had 32gig on my old system it was like 8gig or 10 gig on idle with just firefox and steam and discord and maybe some simple wall paper engine wallpapers but those pause when im doing stuff.

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Just now, chi_chi_ said:

@Giffany

yeah I'm using windows 10. 

yeah its just normal now a days. ever try win 10 on just 2 gig of ram? not fun aha. i had to force an old 10 year old pc to 8gig cause of the win 7 being out of service soon with win 10 ran ok on 4 gig but geez not much room to do much

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17 minutes ago, chi_chi_ said:

So I'm just typing in opera, just one tab (this one) and I open up task manager, I'm at 3.8 gb of ram. I have 2x8gb sticks and I'm wondering if that's just a normal amount for a Ryzen processor, idk any other reason. 

System: 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor  
Motherboard ASRock B450 Steel Legend ATX AM4 Motherboard $107.48 @ SuperBiiz
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  
Storage Kingston A400 120 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $21.99 @ Best Buy
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $39.99 @ Amazon
Video Card Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8 GB NITRO+ SE Video Card $224.99 @ Amazon
Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case $99.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply Corsair Vengeance 750 W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $494.43
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-14 19:51 EST-0500  

 

P.S, how many background processes should be open?

Perfectly fine memory is there for a reason, to be used to make your pc faster and to allow you to multitask.

 

At idle and no open programs with just tray programs running I idle around 16-19GB used.

It all depends what your doing with your system.

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1 hour ago, Giffany said:

yeah its just normal now a days. ever try win 10 on just 2 gig of ram? not fun aha. i had to force an old 10 year old pc to 8gig cause of the win 7 being out of service soon with win 10 ran ok on 4 gig but geez not much room to do much

Ever try to run Vista on 1Gb of slow DDR2 ram and a dying hard drive? Really not fun, even for it's time it was bad.

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3 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

Ever try to run Vista on 1Gb of slow DDR2 ram and a dying hard drive? Really not fun, even for it's time it was bad.

actually i have even on a dying laptop that would blue screen 20 times a day. even when i upgraded to win 7 and the drive it was fine for a few months but then blue screened like crazy again. it was worse experience ever. so i can surely relate.

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