90%+ usage

[Froger]

hi all, i recently built a new PC,
so i built it and installed windows last night.
i havnt really done anythink in the bios, but one thing i noticed, is that today when playing too 720p videos at the same time on youtube, while downloading on steam, and with twitter and facebook open, i went into task manager, and it said it was using 95% of the RAM, but no applications were showing up in the list using very much ram, and i have 8gb 1600mhz. DDR3.
also, is there something i need to do with setting up the ram in the bios at all?
is it just something to do with it being new and caching everything,
i am running a 720p tv, 1080p monitor, and 1280x1024 monitor, so i dont know if that would have anything to do with it.
i dont see why it would considering my spec, any advice would be apriciated, thanks,
thanks for any help
SPEC:
-CPU: i5 4670k (standard clock)
-MOBO: MSI Z87 G45 Gaming
-RAM: G-Skill Ripjaw 8gb (2 x 4gb) 1600mhz
-GPU: GTX 760 2gb (stock clock)
-HDD/SSD: 128gb sandisk SSD, 1tb old HDD (seagate i believe)
-OS:windows 8 64-bit

 

[barnsley]

Have you done "show processes from all users"?
Also is that old 1tb hdd from a computer that had viruses in the past?

 

[Gamepro105]

hi all, i recently built a new PC,
so i built it and installed windows last night.
i havnt really done anythink in the bios, but one thing i noticed, is that today when playing too 720p videos at the same time on youtube, while downloading on steam, and with twitter and facebook open, i went into task manager, and it said it was using 95% of the RAM, but no applications were showing up in the list using very much ram, and i have 8gb 1600mhz. DDR3.
also, is there something i need to do with setting up the ram in the bios at all?
is it just something to do with it being new and caching everything,
i am running a 720p tv, 1080p monitor, and 1280x1024 monitor, so i dont know if that would have anything to do with it.
i dont see why it would considering my spec, any advice would be apriciated, thanks,
thanks for any help
SPEC:
-CPU: i5 4670k (standard clock)
-MOBO: MSI Z87 G45 Gaming
-RAM: G-Skill Ripjaw 8gb (2 x 4gb) 1600mhz
-GPU: GTX 760 2gb (stock clock)
-HDD/SSD: 128gb sandisk SSD, 1tb old HDD (seagate i believe)
-OS:windows 8 64-bit

Im not sure on the rules of ram and how it all works and consumer advice and all that but i'm sure i've heard before you have to set it to run at 1600mhz in the bios or it always runs at 1333 i can remember doing it to a computer before...
have you got all your drivers installed?

 

[alxcsb]

Did you run any games before doing this? I remember getting out of BF4 and noticing that around 13GB of the 16 were still in use, and had to restart the system for the RAM to get freed up. It wasn't showing up in task manager as an active process either.

 

[Froger]

ok, one by one:
first: yes, i beleive there has been viruses on the old hard drive in the past, but they should all be removed and no longer there.
second: i am not sure about my way around MSI gaming bios's, where can i find my ram settings in there? (i am more familiar with asus)
third:no, it was all weird and i hadn't run any games yet, just three screens, 2 youtube videos in hd, and a few tabs in google chrome. but there are 8gb in there, so it shouldnt been using that much, when i did a lot more intensive stuff on slower ram, and half the ram.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Chrome is a memory hog. I can have 2GB of ram being used. Open up 2 tabs in chrome and i shoot up to 3.5GB

Go to "show processes from all users" in the processes tab. Will show you everything being used

 

[UkGouki]

when i run a blueray 1080p x264 vid on my system it uses less than 2gb ram since the book of faces last update that uses close to 1gb ram god knows why but it has made it alot faster...

it could be your power saving features if set on high performance windows will take 25% of your ram for backround processes wakeup from sleep etc.. if you had a samsung ssd you could use the samsung software to set its own power usage which takes the pressure off your system ram and uses the ssd instead also makes your system lightning quick on shutdown/restart etc..

when i run more than 1 youtube vid my system usage for ram on the browser goes sky high just done it now to test and i went to 65% usage flashplayer was basicly using over 50% of my ram i would suggest not having more than 1 youtube video running and testing again.. oh and crome uses a new process for each tab its what makes it quicker but it eats up ram i find firefox quicker and less intrusive..