Ram usable space virrus?

[9justinas9]

Hey i freshly installed windows 10, i have no integrated gpu only discrete gpu. Is it normal to have not all ram usable? I cought a nasty virus last install.

24GB installed (23.9GB) usable. Can ir hide in those 100mb of ram for example?

[Sant_HH]

The small difference is normal. Its reserved for windows

[cmndr]

It's not uncommon for hardware to reserve some RAM to itself. For example videocards and integrated graphics might take a chunk. Same goes for nvme harddrives without DRAM cache (not sure if this shows up in windows task manager).

I believe you can get a more detailed breakdown by going into task manager and finding the right option.

 

Either way, I wouldn't worry about a ~100MB gap. That's under half a percent. If you ABSOLUTELY need more memory and can't install more or are limited on funds, buy a 16GB optane stick (as low as $7 used on ebay, commonly $10) and set that as page file and it'll be "close enough" at a cheap price. The last bit of RAM isn't used THAT often anyway.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Windows

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OS has cached the missing amount. Besides that, you don't going to ever notice it missing. Just firing up any browser will use more than that.

[GoodBytes]

8 hours ago, 9justinas9 said:

Hey i freshly installed windows 10, i have no integrated gpu only discrete gpu. Is it normal to have not all ram usable? I cought a nasty virus last install.

24GB installed (23.9GB) usable. Can ir hide in those 100mb of ram for example?

 

You have a 4690K CPU (from your specs that you posted in your profile). So it has a iGPU inside. Your motherboard has it enabled. So it reserved 128MB of your RAM for its needs. The iGPU will always remain enabled like secondary dedicated GPUs whether you have a display connected to it or not.

 

All you can do, is check your motherboard UEFI settings and disable it, if you have the option. Then you can only hope it actually disables it and not just block the video outputs from working.