Help! RAM running 60+% constantly

[HeavyMetalGamer]

Hey so I've been having some weird issues with my RAM for awhile and it has just gotten to the point where I have to figure out what is going on. So to give a general idea of what is going on is that I recently upgraded my PC from an AMD 8350 to the i7 6700k and with that new DDR4 ram (G.Skill 16GB (Dual Channel Kit) 3200MHz DDR4 Trident Z) and at first everything seemed to be fine. I tend to leave my computer running on a playlist of YouTube videos overnight for the background noise and every once in awhile when I would wake up the video it would be on at the time would be stuttery and unresponsive where it would even take 30+ seconds to get chrome to minimize and then task manager takes an equal amount of time per each step to get up where I will see that my RAM is pegged at 100% forcing me to force shut down the computer using the button on my tower since Windows at this point is just unresponsive. Letting it sit off for a few minutes generally allows the RAM to be cleared and boot back up to where it would be running at maybe 10% load on the RAM. However, the past few days now I've left my computer off for several hours and boot it back up and it will be at 60+% immediately. Any and all suggestions as to the cause and/or solution to this would be much appreciated!

[Logarithm]

This sounds like a memory leak issue. Have you recently installed any programs?

[HeavyMetalGamer]

I think the only things that I have added since upgrading would be: Adobe creative commons suite (only have photoshop and premiere installed), NZXT Cam software, PS4 Remote Play, a new version of Dolphin, and some of the MSI programs that come with the motherboard like Killer Ethernet and Nahimic

[Enderman]

Did you clean install windows when you changed to the 6700k?

[DisconnectedYT]

5 minutes ago, HeavyMetalGamer said:

Hey so I've been having some weird issues with my RAM for awhile and it has just gotten to the point where I have to figure out what is going on. So to give a general idea of what is going on is that I recently upgraded my PC from an AMD 8350 to the i7 6700k and with that new DDR4 ram (G.Skill 16GB (Dual Channel Kit) 3200MHz DDR4 Trident Z) and at first everything seemed to be fine. I tend to leave my computer running on a playlist of YouTube videos overnight for the background noise and every once in awhile when I would wake up the video it would be on at the time would be stuttery and unresponsive where it would even take 30+ seconds to get chrome to minimize and then task manager takes an equal amount of time per each step to get up where I will see that my RAM is pegged at 100% forcing me to force shut down the computer using the button on my tower since Windows at this point is just unresponsive. Letting it sit off for a few minutes generally allows the RAM to be cleared and boot back up to where it would be running at maybe 10% load on the RAM. However, the past few days now I've left my computer off for several hours and boot it back up and it will be at 60+% immediately. Any and all suggestions as to the cause and/or solution to this would be much appreciated!

Because over time memory fills up slowly and then you have to restart the pc to reset it. This isnt really how it works but this makes sense. The RX480 GPU has the same problem with its memory and over time textures saved in the ram get filled and then it all glitches. This is also a problem my ram has after downloading something.

 

All you have to do to fix it is restard the pc after a while.

[HeavyMetalGamer]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Did you clean install windows when you changed to the 6700k?

I did not it was the same hard drive and I'm one of the people who went from 7 to 10 with the free upgrade so I'm not sure if using the 7 disc will mess with anything

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, HeavyMetalGamer said:

I did not it was the same hard drive and I'm one of the people who went from 7 to 10 with the free upgrade so I'm not sure if using the 7 disc will mess with anything

Oh, so not only did you not clean install when you moved to 10, but you also did not clean install when you changed your motherboard...?

Oh god...

Please go do a clean install.

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

And you use a USB drive, not the windows 7 disk.

[HeavyMetalGamer]

1 minute ago, DisconnectedYT said:

Because over time memory fills up slowly and then you have to restart the pc to reset it. This isnt really how it works but this makes sense. The RX480 GPU has the same problem with its memory and over time textures saved in the ram get filled and then it all glitches. This is also a problem my ram has after downloading something.

 

All you have to do to fix it is restard the pc after a while.

That's what I've been doing but now I'll even leave my PC off for hours and once I start it back up it's already at nearly 70% of used RAM and I can't find any programs in task manager that is eating up that much space on it

[Teshy09]

Make sure you jot down the license key for w10, then go do a fresh install.

[HeavyMetalGamer]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Oh, so not only did you not clean install when you moved to 10, but you also did not clean install when you changed your motherboard...?

Oh god...

Please go do a clean install.

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

And you use a USB drive, not the windows 7 disk.

I will give that a shot and see if that fixes the issues!

[HeavyMetalGamer]

So I did the fresh install and am getting things set back up and currently with a few things running like iTunes, Creative Cloud and chrome sitting at about 30% which is significantly better than before! Thanks everyone! Now hopefully this fixes a lot of the other little quirks I was experiencing!