RAM Usage at 60%+?

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Sparky Haste799

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So this has been happening for a while now and the only way I noticed to temp fix it is a simple restart. I don't understand what's really happening, since I don't know much about Memory, but as far as I can tell, these processes don't really add up to the amount of RAM in use... I ran multiple scans on malwarebytes and Microsoft Essentials, nothing, no viruses, no nothing. Also used Advanced system care because maybe it'd help, not really. Any ideas? This usually happens after playing a game or so, I'm usually running Teamspeak, skype, Steam, (insert CSGO, osu, or gmod here), and WMP.

Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
AMD 6300
Asus Nvidia Geforce GTX 650Ti Boost
Thermaltake TR2 TR-500 500W PSU
Micron Technology MT16JTF25664AZ-1G6 (<--- RAM, Gigabyte EasyTune6 shows it's 10 years old?)

I'm gonna go ahead and predict "buy new RAM", but before that, I'm wondering, is there anything I can do to fix this issue?

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Real time scanning doesn't always catch everything. Known viral and malware signatures sometimes have to be directly scanned for to be detected so running scans manually rather than counting on the real time scanning is occasionally a good idea as well as manually making sure definitions are daily updated. Did you happen to run the memtest? Make sure to test modules individually as testing multiple modules can result in false positives plus it makes it impossible to know which module is throwing errors without then having to retest individually anyhow.
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Darkbreeze

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Skype has memory leakage issues. Might not be YOUR issue, but it is AN issue. I'd install the most recent updated version that isn't full of adware, google it, and see if the problem persists.

You might also run memtest86 which you can get at the following link to make sure it's NOT a hardware issue. Memory can have leakage issues due to faulty hardware:

http://www.memtest86.com/


First thing I'd do though is get that Thermaltake TR2 power supply OUT of your system, and install something that's not enormously problematic like that unit is.
 
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Darkbreeze

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How could you be using DDR3 for 10 years? It didn't become widely available until 2009 or 2010. I think maybe your easytune is reporting wrong. It's possible, but kinda unlikely. Still, even if yours are from 2009 that's five years. It could be bad if it's been punished all this time.
 
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Sparky Haste799

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Hmm, I'll get into the memtest stuff tonight, as for the 10 year report, I didn't think the RAM was 10 year either. Maybe it's just the years the company has been up for?

In regards to the problem, I haven't restarted my PC yet, and I'm running at 90% usage constantly.
 
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Ok. It was a thought. I've seen a lot of high cpu and memory usage threads here that turned out to be self replicating malware that just kept loading instances of itself until the system choked on itself. I'd still run a full virus and malware scan. Do you have separate scanners for those? It's always good to just check the basics even if it seems impossible that something can be the cause. As you've probably heard before, when you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever you're left with, no matter how improbable, must be the answer/problem/solution.
 
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I dunno. That looks like an awful lot of instances of Chrome to me. I'm not much of an expert on that browser as I mostly use IE and Firefox but usually when I see more than five instances of the same component it's rarely for a good reason. Unless of course you actually have that many instances of the browser open or a gazillion tabs.
 
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Sparky Haste799

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If I remember correctly Google Chrome makes a process for each add on as well? not sure either, but i sometimes have like, 3 tabs open at once minimum. But I will keep running virus/malware checks.
 
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Since I don't know what you're using for virus and malware protection and scanning or your expertise level in this area I'll give you a link to what is considered pretty standard practice around here and make a couple of suggestions myself. I personally use Windows defender for my virus protection and malwarebytes for malwareware. I've never had an unrecoverable infection using those two together and keeping it updated on a daily basis along with scheduled scans every three days. There are better virus scanners than windows defenders but I don't like the resources most of them use up. Avira free antivirus is probably about the best one out there and of course I believe Malwarebytes to be the only truly effective malware protection. Here is some good info on other aspects of protection just for your reference.

Well, I'll get that link to you later as apparently I don't have it on my laptop, just on my desktop.
 
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I have Windows Defender and Malware Bytes, and I use those two for checks. They just haven't picked up anything recently, well, except malware bytes, it gave me two false positives, but other than that, it's fine, no other pick ups.
 
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Real time scanning doesn't always catch everything. Known viral and malware signatures sometimes have to be directly scanned for to be detected so running scans manually rather than counting on the real time scanning is occasionally a good idea as well as manually making sure definitions are daily updated. Did you happen to run the memtest? Make sure to test modules individually as testing multiple modules can result in false positives plus it makes it impossible to know which module is throwing errors without then having to retest individually anyhow.
 
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