STUMPED

[peachcinnammon]

I have 32 gb of memory and after playing a game it will climb to like 50-60% okay fine but then it wont go back down even after i close everything except like spotify and discord itll remain at like 60% usage. The pc will also sometimes boot with 50% memory usage. Not to mention that when i turn on the pc sometimes it wont boot at all and will stall, i have to power it off and turn it back on for it to boot. the memory issue only started happening after i bought a second pack of memory, its the exact same speed and latency literally everything the same. Ive looked into memory leaks and startup apps and everything i just cant seem to figure it out. 

specs:

mobo:asrock b550 asrock b550 phantom gaming 4/ac
cpu: ryzen 5 3600

ram: gskill aegis 3000 mz (8gb per stick, 4 sticks)
gpu: rx 6600

[Dutch_Master]

Whoah, not so fast! For starters, tell us more about your system: mainboard, CPU, GPU, brand and type of RAM kits you bought. Did you do a CMOS/BIOS reset? If not, do so and try again.

 

That said, it's known for Win-OS (you mentioned gaming, so the most logical choice) to be a gimongous resource hog. And enable other resource hogs to freely run rampant on your system. Does the same thing happen in safe mode?

[Needfuldoer]

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If applications aren't using it, it's being used for filesystem cache or just about anything else that's faster when it's in DRAM than on persistent storage.

 

As long as everything runs fine, and you don't see all that missing memory under "system reserved", don't worry about it.

[peachcinnammon]

HEY ITS ME AGAIN FOLLOWING UP. So I figured something was still wrong and decided to just as a f it we ball, i decided to switch the orientation of the ram as they were bought at separate times, well after that i started blue screening and couldn't even get in with a boot usb. So after successfully getting in one time i reset windows but didnt like wipe it clean, it was fixed for a bit and the ram went back to normal but i started blue screening again. So this time after once again somehow getting into to windows i did a full reinstall of windows and everything works well and the ram usage isnt sitting at a constant like 75% in idle. idk what the moral is but yea we all good now.