RAM Issue

ShaunB-91

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Okay, well as some of you may know I replaced my SSD a few weeks ago due to odd lag when on the desktop, now it looks like its RAM.

Whilst downloading AW everything was fine and the rig had been on a few hours, then I open YouTube and it just lags..badly. I checked task manager which said the RAM was at 98% usage...err I had Chrome with four tabs, Skype and Steam open and I have 2x8GB of Dom Plats. Then the CPU jumped to 33% usage from 5 as Steam stopped responding, closed that, calmed the CPU but there was literally 40MB and the rest were like 0.1's for RAM processes.

HWMonitor doesn't see the RAM but task manager see's the 16GB in two slots fine. Rick managed to find something on regedit to edit about paged pool stuff so I changed that but I'm not convinced. Whats going on? I wouldn't even say its dodgy RAM either because its using the two sticks. Also tried Malwarebytes but that was clean.

It eventually calmed down but not back to normal, it still lagged when bringing Chrome back up etc.

Any ideas?
 
Maybe it is Chrome

Try IE11 for a bit and see if the problem goes away

This will rule out hardware as a problem.
 
Im having all sorts of issues with Chrome myself ATM I might change to Firefox or IE and it's only just started these last few days
 
I don't know if its Chrome, surely that couldn't bring your rig to a stand still pretty much.

Something is eating RAM, or at least Windows is reporting it is.
 
I don't know if its Chrome, surely that couldn't bring your rig to a stand still pretty much.

chrome can freeze my PC too but only when I have the CPU-Z validation running and then it opens chrome to show me the validated score and... boom freeze
win 8 too here.
are you running the latest chrome version? (64-bit)
 
chrome can freeze my PC too but only when I have the CPU-Z validation running and then it opens chrome to show me the validated score and... boom freeze
win 8 too here.
are you running the latest chrome version? (64-bit)

As far as I'm aware its the latest Chrome. It updates itself doesn't it?
 
Version 38.0.2125.111 m yup its up-to-date. :mellow:

It could be a ram-leaking driver, try reinstalling your gpu driver, lan, usb. Then there is also a registry hack which shall fix it but I have no clue how that works...
 
I noticed in task manager my Chrome is 32-bit, although it is the latest version...will it make much difference going 64-bit?

I'm not sure what to do, is it software or hardware. Its not exactly cheap RAM either, if I have to remove a stick it'll be like loosing a limb. Well maybe not that bad.
 
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