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I have 8GB of RAM@1600MHz, however my computer is often sluggish even with less than 50% of the RAM being used. I suspect that it is because Windows 7 has set my virtual memory amount to 8GB, so the OS is pushing data to the pagefile without first filling up all available RAM. Should I reduce the size of my virtual memory?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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It is important to check which type of os you have you should be running 64 bit if you have 8gb of ram. Go into computer and the go onto system properties and see which version of the os you are using.

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I have 4gb ram and i idle at 900mb used. I dnt have virtual memory but i have a ramdisk cache. with ramdisk as cache for my computer i have significantly  improved my performance, windows starts up less than 15seconds. (using 1tb WD)

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| GPU: GIGABYTE GTX980Ti G1 GAMING | SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250GB  | Storage: WD 1TB GREEN | OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit | PSU: FSP 650W AURUM S |

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