Chrome uses a lot of memory on mine as well, can go up to about 4GB with that, I do remember on mine that the longer the computer is on for, the more memory it uses even if it’s the same programs running, probably memory leaks, mind you I’m planning to upgrade later this year most of my computer and getting 16GB of memory, don’t think it will get used with Windows 10, DX12 using less memory but best to have for future proofing and the good news is that DDR4 memories been coming down in price a lot lately, thought it was going to be around £200 for 16GB but I saw it for under £80 around a month ago, much faster at 2400 compared to mine which is 1600 speed.

When I saw the check of 6298 dollars, I accept that my friend’s brother was like really generating cash in his free time with his PC. . His aunt’s neighbor has done this for only 11 months and by now repaid the loan on their home and bought a new Car .

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Mines with Trillian, Skype, Steam, Chrome browser being up and drivers for my webcam/Blue Yeti Mic being on all the time. No AV or Firewall though. So, yeah – No idea, depends how long I guess my computer has been running perhaps. It’s now just using 3.5 so it fluctuates from that average.

lol you again.

You might not care but he does have a point, 8 GB which 3 is reserved for the OS and the memory is split between the cpu and gpu, when you look at it like that, it’s not as much memory as it sounds, on the PC, 8GB to 16GB system memory and 2GB to 4GB graphics memory is kind of the norm for midrange to high end PC’s.

Not sure what you are doing to use that much memory that is very high, on idle on mine it uses about 1.3GB, this is with Steam, Avast and AMD graphics control panel running, Steam as we know has it’s own browser, and also, Windows if it was like a console and striped down would use a lot less memory than it does on PC, I was shocked like many others about only 5GB being used for games and to this day, I’m still amazed it still uses that much reserve memory when Steam alone does quite a chunk of those features you talked about, I think they could trim it down to about 1GB and still do what it does now.

well it uses about 30% as a pre fetch, it only actually needs about 2GB but it stores other data for faster loading of previously used programs and can recover that RAM if it needs to

“MUH 8GB GDDR5”, right?

Those apps are all running, jusg nobody cares to see the game and their browser at the same time. Why would they? This is a living room machine, not something for a lone desk jockey to kiss the screen about.