- Sep 14, 2011
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first, my build
Asus Z97M-Plus MB
i7-4790 (locked) cpu
G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600Mhz, 16 GB, (2X8)
Samsung 840 EVO SSDs 250 GB (2x)
samsung 810 SSD 256 GB, old, used as a "worktable" drive for video
4 tb Western HDD Green
Asus GTX Geforce 750 Ti graphics card, 2 gb
I do a lot of video rendering.
i just added the graphics card, but even before the graphics card, i've never seen memory usage go above 5.98 GB - i monitored it out of curiousity, both in task manager and using the intel XTU (Extreme Tuning utility), and it's usually at 3.9 - 4.4 GB. Even when i run stress tests, whether Prime95 or XTU (stress and benchmarking tests), it's rare to see memory usage go above 4.8 GB
why did i buy 16 GBs if it's using, at max, 6 gb of memory. Probably better to ask, why isn't it using the resources i bothered to purchase & install?
just curious about this, as i've had no problems with anything, other than an initial overheating issue with the cpu that's been cleared.
tks in advance
Asus Z97M-Plus MB
i7-4790 (locked) cpu
G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600Mhz, 16 GB, (2X8)
Samsung 840 EVO SSDs 250 GB (2x)
samsung 810 SSD 256 GB, old, used as a "worktable" drive for video
4 tb Western HDD Green
Asus GTX Geforce 750 Ti graphics card, 2 gb
I do a lot of video rendering.
i just added the graphics card, but even before the graphics card, i've never seen memory usage go above 5.98 GB - i monitored it out of curiousity, both in task manager and using the intel XTU (Extreme Tuning utility), and it's usually at 3.9 - 4.4 GB. Even when i run stress tests, whether Prime95 or XTU (stress and benchmarking tests), it's rare to see memory usage go above 4.8 GB
why did i buy 16 GBs if it's using, at max, 6 gb of memory. Probably better to ask, why isn't it using the resources i bothered to purchase & install?
just curious about this, as i've had no problems with anything, other than an initial overheating issue with the cpu that's been cleared.
tks in advance
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