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High RAM usage at idle?

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It's entirely normal for Windows alone to utilize 2.5-3GB or RAM, so seems about right.

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Does this look like normal memory usage at idle to you? Just Windows appears to use 3 of my 16 gigs at idle, which is more than I expected.

 

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It's entirely normal for Windows alone to utilize 2.5-3GB or RAM, so seems about right.

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Just now, Chris Pratt said:

It's entirely normal for Windows alone to utilize 2.5-3GB or RAM, so seems about right.

Ah okay, good to know. For some reason I thought it was kinda high because it was consistently around 1.7gb at idle on my old PC. 

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2 minutes ago, soundlogic said:

Does this look like normal memory usage at idle to you? Just Windows appears to use 3 of my 16 gigs at idle, which is more than I expected.

 

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Yeah it is perfectly normal for Windows 10 to take up that much at idle.
Here is mine right now (pretty much everything closed, even closed the browser when taking the screenshot):

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Unused RAM is wasted RAM, only when the OS isn't releasing RAM when needed by programs/games does it become a problem.

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1 minute ago, Biohazard777 said:

Yeah it is perfectly normal for Windows 10 to take up that much at idle.
Here is mine right now (pretty much everything closed, even closed the browser when taking the screenshot):

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Unused RAM is wasted RAM, only when the OS isn't releasing RAM when needed by programs/games does it become a problem.

Thanks. I was pegged at 50-60% at idle because of a Killer driver issue, but updating that, disabling NDU, and killing like 30 services (adobe, avid etc.) seemed to bring it way down. Part of me just wants to prune everything

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