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Is windows 8 under utilizing my memory?

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Hi everyone!

It's been about 4 months since I built my rig, and I am very satisfied with it, except in one area, My RAM usage. I have 8gb of Corsair Vengeance pro, with an 1866 frequency. But it seems like every once and a while it totally trips out and gets over burdened at gets stuck at 97% usage because of simple programs like skype or steam. Any ideas?

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full system specs?
a list of taskmgr's running programs?

edit: underutilising*

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Are you on 32bit or 64bit

CPU: i7 4770k CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i Mobo: Gigabyte z87 ud3h Memory: 16GB Corsair Veng. 1866MHz  GPU: EVGA SC 780 PSU: Corsair ax850 Case: Define R4 BlackOut Edition SSD: Samsung 840 EVO HDD: Two WD Black 7200RPM 1TB

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Maybe it keeps some memory reserved for the iGPU. Do you have a discrete or an integrated GPU?

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My specs include:

GTX 770

i7-4770k at 4.0

RAM specified above

240gb ssd

ect

 

and 64 bit

 

Are you on 32bit or 64bit

 

full system specs?
a list of taskmgr's running programs?£

edit: underutilising*

 

Maybe it keeps some memory reserved for the iGPU. Do you have a discrete or an integrated GPU?

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Only thing I can say is if you don't have updated drivers, but I assume you do have updated drivers. Soooo, IDK. My extensive knowledge doesn't go in to memory. :/ Try setting the programs priority to low... uhhh I can't think of much else to try.

CPU: i7 4770k CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i Mobo: Gigabyte z87 ud3h Memory: 16GB Corsair Veng. 1866MHz  GPU: EVGA SC 780 PSU: Corsair ax850 Case: Define R4 BlackOut Edition SSD: Samsung 840 EVO HDD: Two WD Black 7200RPM 1TB

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reset windows, simplets fix available. you could scan for viruses, reinstall the faulty programs using advanced unninstallers... but all those take time and stress.

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