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3GB of My RAM is Used for No Reason

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So recently, I searched over Google "How to Reduce Shared Memory of my graphics card", and turns out, it can't. Windows will not take any RAM for no reason. I was glad to hear that. But, after I check in the Task Manager, it uses 3GB of my RAM (with total of 4GB SODIMM, yes I'm using laptop). As in pictures, I only opens 2 tabs of Firefox (school website and LTT), Minimized Discord, Task Manager, Avira (which is not doing so much), and that's it. Anyone can explain? Specification: Intel Core i5-7200U (2 cores, 4 thread), Intel HD Graphics 620, SK Hynix SODIMM 1x4GB 2133MHz, 500GB HDD (5400RPM), battery is leaked so I had to plug it in all the time to use, 1366x768 with 60hz display. Note that my RAM usage is always over 60% even after startup. I tried to give so much information I had.

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Easy, just put another stick in there.  You can easily check which programs are using the ram.  Windows 10 uses ram, all the other things you have open are using it, click on the memory heading and it will show the top users. 

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Standard Windows behavior, especially for long uptimes

 

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Like 3/4gb used? Or hardware reserved?

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1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Like 3/4gb used? Or hardware reserved?

His screenshot shows 84MB hardware reserved. It's just Windows Memory Management being confusing to read.

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Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Like 3/4gb used? Or hardware reserved?

Basically, 2,7gb-3gb used for the most of the time. I know I can just put another RAM in there, but I don't have such of money (I'm still in middle school btw)

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11 minutes ago, GamerLozer said:

total of 4GB

It's 2021 and you have 4GB of ram, what do you expect?

 

Look up How to improve or de-bloat Windows by TechYesCity on YouTube.

And add another 4gb stick if you can.

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Just now, MadAnt250 said:

It's 2021 and you have 4GB of ram, what do you expect?

 

Look up How to improve or de-bloat Windows by TechYesCity on YouTube.

Oh, okay. Hey, I'm still middle school, if I had decent amount of money, I would buy it.

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Oh yeah, I forgot one thing. It's Windows 8.1 (yes, my laptop is that slow). Sorry!

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windows will happily use all of your 4GB RAM if it's available, and use as little as 900-ish MB if it is necessary for other means. this is normal behavior, it allows windows to operate faster, and it'll become available if other software demands it.

empty RAM is essentially wasted RAM, so windows 10 uses that ram to accellerate backend things if it's sitting idle anyways.

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1 minute ago, manikyath said:

windows will happily use all of your 4GB RAM if it's available, and use as little as 900-ish MB if it is necessary for other means. this is normal behavior, it allows windows to operate faster, and it'll become available if other software demands it.

empty RAM is essentially wasted RAM, so windows 10 uses that ram to accellerate backend things if it's sitting idle anyways.

Oh, okay. Thanks for the information!

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29 minutes ago, GamerLozer said:

Basically, 2,7gb-3gb used for the most of the time. I know I can just put another RAM in there, but I don't have such of money (I'm still in middle school btw)

Tbh 2-3 GB is basically the minimum windows 10 (or 8.1, won't be a big difference) uses, if you close all the stuff like Browser etc you'll get to around 2 GB used easily... but as soon you open stuff that'll grow bigger again - there really isn't much you can do about it - either try to not have many things open at once, or upgrade your RAM. 

 

25 minutes ago, manikyath said:

empty RAM is essentially wasted RAM

I mean technically it's just RAM waiting to get used, if you wanna get philosophical you could say it's wasted, I say the opposite, RAM that's idle because it is waiting to play high resolution video games is saving energy and reducing "tear and wear"... 🤷🏼

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6 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

I mean technically it's just RAM waiting to get used, if you wanna get philosophical you could say it's wasted, I say the opposite, RAM that's idle because it is waiting to play high resolution video games is saving energy and reducing "tear and wear"... 🤷🏼

ram being empty doesnt reduce wear and tear, it's all there, it's all 'active', and it can be cleared and re-filled several times over before your high resolution game can even start loading it's assets from disk.

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5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

ram being empty doesnt reduce wear and tear, it's all there, it's all 'active', and it can be cleared and re-filled several times over before your high resolution game can even start loading it's assets from disk.

Is that why it never downclocks? I was wondering about that, but it would also make sense because even if you just use 1GB of 8 it needs to be powered and running at its target frequency I guess... 

 

I just thought honestly the more it gets to work the more energy it uses, like if it needs to swap data frequently - like indeed when playing a game. 

 

 

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6GB was a bare minimum back in 2O12

32GB is bare minimum nowadays

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Just now, Kotonoha said:

6GB was a bare minimum back in 2O12

32GB is bare minimum nowadays

Nah, 4GB was bare minimum and 8GB was standard.

Today, 8GB is bare minimum and 16GB is standard.

32GB is if you do more than just game.

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7 hours ago, Kotonoha said:

32GB is bare minimum nowadays

i hope that is a joke...

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3 hours ago, manikyath said:

i hope that is a joke...

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