Memory usage - is 71% usage alright?

[Yongtjunkit]

Hi I was wondering if 71% ram usage alright with 4 GB Ram and 5 chrome tab open? And is ram upgrade needed?

 

Specs 

Dell inspiron 580 

- intel i5 760

-4gb ddr3 ram

- windows 10 64bit

-nvidia gt220 

-1tb hdd

[AlTech]

6 minutes ago, Yongtjunkit said:

Hi I was wondering if 71% ram usage alright with 4 GB Ram and 5 chrome tab open? 

 

Specs 

Dell inspiron 580 

- intel i5 760

-4gb ddr3 ram

- windows 10 64bit

-nvidia gt220 

-1tb hdd

 

I'm more surprised by the fact that you don't have 8GB or 16GB of RAM.

 

There is nothing inherently wrong with seeing 71% RAM usage when you have only 4GB RAM.

[Yongtjunkit]

3 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

4GB RAM is cutting it pretty close these days. Yeah, it's manageable but not that fun. 

 

As long as you are using it for office work, you'll be fine. Although I generally like to have plenty of headroom when it comes to RAM just to give me peace-of-mind.

 

Get another 4GB stick and throw it in your system. If you only have 2 RAM slots and they are both filled, get an 8GB stick for a total of 10GB of RAM.

 

1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

 

I'm more surprised by the fact that you don't have 8GB or 16GB of RAM.

 

There is nothing inherently wrong with seeing 71% RAM usage when you have only 4GB RAM.

The system only supports up to 8gb 1333mhz ddr3 ram. Sometimes open a new window of Microsoft edge instead of new tab

[SageOfSpice]

My computer is using 3.7Gb of ram with 3 chrome tabs open, so....

Yeah.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Yongtjunkit said:

 

The system only supports up to 8gb 1333mhz ddr3 ram. Sometimes open a new window of Microsoft edge instead of new tab

upgrade to 8GB RAM?

 

That seems like a pretty decent solution to me.

[johnt]

3 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I'm more surprised by the fact that you don't have 8GB or 16GB of RAM.

"Dude you're getting a Dell" basically interpreted as 4 GB was the absolute minimum Dell could sell a computer with back in 2009/2010. So that's what the OP got!

[johnt]

2 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

upgrade to 8GB RAM?

Considering it's DDR3, this is a really good idea. You can find 2x4GB for pretty cheap. Maybe $60. I don't know if that system can support 1x8GB so be careful about that. Best thing to do is to buy another 1x4GB of the stick Dell originally included, but that's probably going to be difficult to find.

[zMeul]

9 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

4GB RAM is cutting it pretty close

8GB is cutting it close, 4GB is no way enough for Windows + Chrome, maybe some light Linux plus Chromium 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

did you subtract the ram used for cache before reporting ram use? theres more to ram than a % free. if you are not getting high pagefaults then you have no need to upgrade. do you want to post a screenshot of the resource tab of task manager?

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

6 minutes ago, zMeul said:

8GB is cutting it close, 4GB is no way enough for Windows + Chrome, maybe some light Linux plus Chromium 

i ran windows 8 and 10 on a cheap laptop with 2GB ram. it wasn't too bad

[SkilledRebuilds]

PC has been on all day, Origin and Firefox are currently open and Systray Icons are GFE/MSI/Netlimiter, Browsing with a few tabs (holding a paused YT vid and a google image page) and a forum.

2.6GB Used.

[it_dont_work]

23 minutes ago, Yongtjunkit said:

Hi I was wondering if 71% ram usage alright with 4 GB Ram and 5 chrome tab open? And is ram upgrade needed?

I'm using about that much with 3 tabs and a video going on firefox on my desktop. 8/10 optimize ram usage  reasonably well from my experience, my work laptop only has 4gb of ram and I'm yet to find something that I can't do like general browsing, typing, email etc. I mean it's not going to run any simulations or render but I don't need it to.

[SageOfSpice]

2 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

PC has been on all day, Origin and Firefox are currently open and Systray Icons are GFE/MSI/Netlimiter, Browsing with a few tabs (holding a paused YT vid and a google image page) and a forum.

2.6GB Used.

GFE? Girlfriend experience? Oh my. Haha.

Net limiter seems amazing. Why haven't I seen this before? D=

There needs to be a thread for cool programs.

[zMeul]

9 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

i ran windows 8 and 10 on a cheap laptop with 2GB ram. it wasn't too bad

I doubt you even managed to install it on 2GB

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

I doubt you even managed to install it on 2GB

Windows can technically work on 2GB RAM. I don't imagine that anybody would have a good time on it.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

7 minutes ago, zMeul said:

I doubt you even managed to install it on 2GB

it came with windows oem. its a laptop. i bought it near the end of 2015. i also ran the free win 10 upgrade on it. they still sell some models with 2GB but now they sell them with flash storage like a chromebook

[vorticalbox]

29 minutes ago, zMeul said:

8GB is cutting it close, 4GB is no way enough for Windows + Chrome, maybe some light Linux plus Chromium 

funny that I run windows ina vm with 4 cores and 2gb of ram with chrome and a hand full of tabs open and it works just fine.

 

windows 10 should use around 2 GB of ram.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

11 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Windows can technically work on 2GB RAM. I don't imagine that anybody would have a good time on it.

it was only ok for browsing. could play 1080p youtube without trouble but it does have a quad core celeron. I had to upgrade to do programming and run an android vm on it

[zMeul]

17 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

funny that I run windows ina vm with 4 cores and 2gb of ram with chrome and a hand full of tabs open and it works just fine.

 

windows 10 should use around 2 GB of ram.

yes yes, do tell 

[vorticalbox]

17 minutes ago, zMeul said:

yes yes, do tell 

I also use it for visual studio as I main Linux. Did I meant 80% execution cap? 2gb is enough for Windows 10.

 

you know the requirements at 1gz cpu, 1gb for 32bit and 2gb for 64bit.

[Yongtjunkit]

14 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

wait a minute, how many RAM slots does your PC have?

4, 2*2 GB Ram had been used for 4 GB Ram. The system ram 1333mhz is quite hard to find in Malaysia 

[Yongtjunkit]

1 hour ago, JohnT said:

Considering it's DDR3, this is a really good idea. You can find 2x4GB for pretty cheap. Maybe $60. I don't know if that system can support 1x8GB so be careful about that. Best thing to do is to buy another 1x4GB of the stick Dell originally included, but that's probably going to be difficult to find.

It actually have 2x2gb ram and it only supports 1333mhz 

[Yongtjunkit]

1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

did you subtract the ram used for cache before reporting ram use? theres more to ram than a % free. if you are not getting high pagefaults then you have no need to upgrade. do you want to post a screenshot of the resource tab of task manager?

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, vorticalbox said:

I also use it for visual studio as I main Linux. Did I meant 80% execution cap? 2gb is enough for Windows 10.

Noice.

1 hour ago, vorticalbox said:

you know the requirements at 1gz cpu, 1gb for 32bit and 2gb for 64bit.

actually this requirement is out of date.

 

Windows 10 Build 10586/14393 or newer require 2GB RAM for Desktop regardless if you choose 32 Bit or 64 Bit.

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Noice.

actually this requirement is out of date.

 

Windows 10 Build 10586/14393 or newer require 2GB RAM for Desktop regardless if you choose 32 Bit or 64 Bit.

didn't know that nice to see they keep their website up to date though.