Should I be buying more RAM?

Sam QS

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So I just noticed that depending on what games I play, I end up using up to 7gb out of 8gb RAM, should I be upgrading for more RAM? I don't recall ever hitting pass 7gb though so not sure what to do here.
 
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wow and what game is it ,you wanna share of cause.

viewtyjoe

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Anything newer than Windows XP will cache often used files/programs in RAM in order to more quickly access them. I know in Windows 8.1, it's broken down in Task Manager that despite being "used" it's still free memory, since Windows can just overwrite it as needed when applications use that amount of memory. Generally, that's what leads to looking like you constantly have most of your RAM in use, most of it's just being used to hold stuff you could use, rather than stuff you're actively using.
 
wow and what game is it ,you wanna share of cause.

 
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Sam QS

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240 mods Skyrim that has pretty much every 2~4k texture mods on high~ultra settings along with a bunch of other game changing mods.

But Skyrim alone is not to blame, my background generally runs 2gb since I usually leave my google chrome with a few pages(some videos) up almost all the time.