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HIgh RAM Usage

Jasun
By Jasun
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The other day, I bought a new prebuilt system and the current issue is that when I have no programs open, my RAM usage is already at 50%. I have 4 gigs of RAM but on my older system, it also had 4 gigs but I do not believe that it used as much when idling. When I opened task manager, I saw that the top "ram hogs" when idling were, Antimalware Service Executable, Microsoft WIndows Search Indexer, and Service Host: Superfetch. All of these services are using ~75-100 MBs of RAM. It just seems like it's using too much. If that's not the issue, please tell me, I just want to fix my high ram usage. Thanks!

 

Specs: 

i5-2400

4 GB DDR3 RAM

GTX 750

2 HDDs (500GB, 7200 RPM)

 

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If you're using Windows 10 then yes 4GB RAM will result in 50% usage. This is totally normal.

 

4GB RAM isn't enough these days for most tasks. You should upgrade to 8GB or 16GB.

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1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

If you're using Windows 10 then yes 4GB RAM will result in 50% usage. This is totally normal.

 

4GB RAM isn't enough these days for most tasks. You should upgrade to 8GB or 16GB.

Okay, I wait for other replies until marking the answer correct. I try to upgrade to 8 gigs in the next few months. 

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Pretty normal for your machine. See above. Sorry...

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5 minutes ago, Jasun said:

Okay, I wait for other replies until marking the answer correct. I try to upgrade to 8 gigs in the next few months. 

All of my machines normally use 50% RAM

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Windows 10's official RAM minimum is now 2GBs. Your situation is normal. Add more RAM if you have an issue.

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