Memory Issues

[UnidentifiedTank]

I have a couple basic questions that have stumped me recently. Recently my memory usage seems to be too high for whats running (even if I restart my entire system). I have ~32 Gb of ram installed but (on startup) around 40% is used, just steam and my virus protection are running. Any reason why so much of my memory is being eaten? I can't even find what is eating all of it on Resource monitor. In addition my task manger shows my ram speed as 1333MHz, but my ram is advertised as 2666MHz (do I need to enable XMP, or is this just something task manger gets wrong). 

 

Thank you for your responses! 

 

*I want to note that my system has not ever blue screened because of memory

[Jurrunio]

Task Manager can show what app is using so much RAM

 

1333 is correct, you double that to get 2666.

[Chris Pratt]

RAM usage doesn't matter unless you're maxed out and paging to the filesystem. Windows caches all sorts of things in RAM to help your computer be more responsive, but if there's actual pressure on the capacity, it will evict things from the cache to make room for more process heaps. Long and short, don't worry about it unless you're paging.

 

DDR literally means double data rate. If you have 2666Mhz RAM it actually is 1333Mhz. The double data rate means that you get two ops per clock cycle effectively making it 2666Mhz.

[UnidentifiedTank]

3 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

RAM usage doesn't matter unless you're maxed out and paging to the filesystem. Windows caches all sorts of things in RAM to help your computer be more responsive, but if there's actual pressure on the capacity, it will evict things from the cache to make room for more process heaps. Long and short, don't worry about it unless you're paging.

 

DDR literally means double data rate. If you have 2666Mhz RAM it actually is 1333Mhz. The double data rate means that you get two ops per clock cycle effectively making it 2666Mhz.

Thank you for your response, and the info about the ram, for some reason I did not know that until now. Seeing as though my computer has not had any blue screens then it should be fine as you said. Thanks!

 

[Hoodrich Iggy]

Theres also a trick I used to take off some usage of a hard drive could shave a little off your ram too, if you look up "windows 10 hard drive 100%" it should come up it's just disabling a search feature in windows, but every but helps I suppose.  Also take a look through task manage look up anything that seems unfamiliar or you just dont know find out what you need and dont need running, making sure chrome and browser extensions aren't running in the background, discord also opens multiple times in task manager dont know why.