- May 12, 2013
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Greetings,
I am having a bit of trouble with my RAM at the moment and I am looking for a little advice.
I recently decided to backup what I wanted and then run a clean install of Windows 7 Professional x64. That all went well, but I am still confused about how Windows is handling my RAM.
tl;dr version -
I have 8gb of RAM on a clean with minimal installations and my boot is slower than I would think it would be and Windows also says I have about 4gb free.
Long version -
My Setup:
Sony Vaio Laptop (VPCEB36GM)
Link for Specs
Important information if you don't want to use the link:
- Processor: Intel Core i5 M460 @ 2.5 Ghz
- RAM: Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) 204-pin SODIMM DDR3 PC3-10600 CL=9 Unbuffered NON-ECC DDR3-1333 1.35V 512Meg x 64
I do not know about the Motherboard and the BIOS is what came with the system.
I installed this RAM as it came with 4gb from Sony.
I also partitioned my hard drive giving Windows 7 and my essential programs their own space. This partition is 125gb. The others are 330gb for general storage and a 1gb partition for sensitive data.
As I stated before, I have just done a clean install. Other than Windows 7 Pro x64 I have only installed Office 2013, Defraggler, Acronis Backup, Daemon Tools, WAMP Server, CCleaner, Avast, and SetPoint for Logitech devices.
I did run Diskeeper for a while but it didn't seem to have a huge amount of benefits so I uninstalled it.
Now the important part, my question.
I have noticed some slower than expected boot times since my install and am trying to figure out why this is. It would seem to me that running a pretty baron setup with that much RAm and a decent processor would be pretty "snappy."
When I run Resource Monitor it shows the following for memory:
Total 7854
Cached 1572
Available 5621
Free 4166
Running dxdiag shows the following:
Memory 8192
Page File 2643MB used, 13063MB available
I have looked into superfetch, page file size, check my BIOS, and everything else I can think of. I will run memtest tonight.
The main thing I want to know is why I have so much available but still have sluggish boot up. It would seem that with almost 4gb available that it should be a little speedier. How can I make it so that boot increases by utilizing that "extra" RAM.
Thank you guys so much, I hope this is clear enough and doesn't go against any rules.
Thanks Again,
Beardy
I am having a bit of trouble with my RAM at the moment and I am looking for a little advice.
I recently decided to backup what I wanted and then run a clean install of Windows 7 Professional x64. That all went well, but I am still confused about how Windows is handling my RAM.
tl;dr version -
I have 8gb of RAM on a clean with minimal installations and my boot is slower than I would think it would be and Windows also says I have about 4gb free.
Long version -
My Setup:
Sony Vaio Laptop (VPCEB36GM)
Link for Specs
Important information if you don't want to use the link:
- Processor: Intel Core i5 M460 @ 2.5 Ghz
- RAM: Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) 204-pin SODIMM DDR3 PC3-10600 CL=9 Unbuffered NON-ECC DDR3-1333 1.35V 512Meg x 64
I do not know about the Motherboard and the BIOS is what came with the system.
I installed this RAM as it came with 4gb from Sony.
I also partitioned my hard drive giving Windows 7 and my essential programs their own space. This partition is 125gb. The others are 330gb for general storage and a 1gb partition for sensitive data.
As I stated before, I have just done a clean install. Other than Windows 7 Pro x64 I have only installed Office 2013, Defraggler, Acronis Backup, Daemon Tools, WAMP Server, CCleaner, Avast, and SetPoint for Logitech devices.
I did run Diskeeper for a while but it didn't seem to have a huge amount of benefits so I uninstalled it.
Now the important part, my question.
I have noticed some slower than expected boot times since my install and am trying to figure out why this is. It would seem to me that running a pretty baron setup with that much RAm and a decent processor would be pretty "snappy."
When I run Resource Monitor it shows the following for memory:
Total 7854
Cached 1572
Available 5621
Free 4166
Running dxdiag shows the following:
Memory 8192
Page File 2643MB used, 13063MB available
I have looked into superfetch, page file size, check my BIOS, and everything else I can think of. I will run memtest tonight.
The main thing I want to know is why I have so much available but still have sluggish boot up. It would seem that with almost 4gb available that it should be a little speedier. How can I make it so that boot increases by utilizing that "extra" RAM.
Thank you guys so much, I hope this is clear enough and doesn't go against any rules.
Thanks Again,
Beardy
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