RAM Usage

[DerpyDerp123]

How many GB of RAM are being used if I have a few Chrome tab open while playing games like CSGO, LoL, TF2, etc. And using a voice chat like Skype with an antivirus and Geforce Experience or Raptr? I know I could check it myself, however, my laptop broke few days ago and I want to know real world usage. I know I could google and I did, but the information isn't relevant to my question and not that useful.

[Guest]

about 2,5 GB

if you use win7

[DerpyDerp123]

about 2,5 GB

if you use win7

Will Win8 have better memory usage?

[Guest]

Will Win8 have better memory usage?

Cant tell you didn't used it.

[aidenrelkoff]

Will Win8 have better memory usage?

yes

 

under that load i use about 3.5-4. Unless its minecraft, i have 3gbs allocated to that alone

 

about 2,5 GB

if you use win7

no more like 4-5

 

he said skype, chrome tabs and GAMES. 

[Guest]

yes

 

under that load i use about 3.5-4. Unless its minecraft, i have 3gbs allocated to that alone

 

no more like 4-5

 

he said skype, chrome tabs and GAMES. 

If you run multiple games in same time than yea it can take up to 1000GB of RAM.

But CSGO? TF2? LoL?

I played tf2 (wot,bf3,...) and used skype and chrome in same time and never get over 3 GB. I get over 3GB if using chrome with 10 youtube tabs open. 

[DerpyDerp123]

Thanks for the information guys.

[i_build_nanosuits]

get 8gb (2x4gb) the cheapest available will do.

[faziten]

I feel you ask this question because of huge use of ram by your browser, don't think thats due to some virus or misconfiguration. Some sites will eat a lot of your ram in chrome. ie: Facebook, even this forum does. The more you keep using a certain tab more stuff get piled up in the process linked to that tab. (This is valid in chrome, since firefox uses only one process to pile up eveything). It's not "a bad thing" but let's say you have been scrolling your facebook tab for 10 minutes watching activity you lost while you were in work, school, etc. Every time you scroll, every post loads a capsule of javascript with the given content. this, start to pile in the process. If you want to watch this happen in real time, startup process manager, lock it on top so it doesnt minimize, and start scrolling on facebook. You will see your ram fill up in as every content loads. 

If you re-use this tab to open "www.google.com" you will see the ram used will not decay. Want your ram back? close the tab and open a new one with the content you want. (this happen because the proccess was destroyed and the ram linked to that process is flaged as available by your operative system, the content didnt actually dissapear, but it's no longer accessible, as if you drop a glass of water in a pool. It's still there, but cant distinguish it from surrounding water without the process linked to it (former "glass"). 

 

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