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So this past week I've seen my ram usage at idle slowly climb every time I turn my computer on from a night of leaving it off. It started off at around 50% then the next day 60% then kept climbing each day until now where its at 90% and I only have one window of chrome open and task manager. At first I thought I had a virus (still could) but the CPU usage remains low and I've ran three different antivirus programs just to check if I have a virus. I ran malwarbytes, Rkill, and windows defender. All of the scans saying I do not have a virus. So it is possible I could have a memory leak? Or should I just get more ram?

Specs:
CPU: i5-4690k OC @4.2GHz
GPU: GTX 960 2GB
RAM: 1 stick of 8GB @1333
MOBO: MSI z87 g45
PSU: Corsair CX600 600W

Not sure if its worth mentioning but a week or two ago upgraded to that motherboard, it is refurbished, but it seemed to work just fine.

http://imgur.com/SA5EyFB

This is a screenshot of my task manager right after turning my computer on with only google chrome and snipping tool running.

Another thing to note is that sometimes when I'm watching a twitch stream it could use around 20% of my ram but when I close the stream my ram usage does not go down by 20%. instead
svchost.exe and msmgEng.exe crank their usage up so it keeps my system at a high ram usage.

Screenshot with a twitch stream open (and toms hardware and snipping tool):
http://imgur.com/TnszIgH

And after I closed the twitch stream:
http://imgur.com/XrLXhgB
 
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mcnumpty23



its a very well known problem where the killer network on the motherboard has a memory leak so the longer the pc is on the more memory it uses

one solution is to use regedit

and change the registry key value of the “Start” entry to 4 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu\
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your problem seems like you should restore the pc to the previously created restore point. is it solves the issue then it might possible that newly installed software might be causing this problem. if you are not having previous system restore point then format the system through out. it will surely solve the problem.
 
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if you have found the solution for your problem then please let me know how to solve it so i can add it up to my knowledge base. :)
 
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its a very well known problem where the killer network on the motherboard has a memory leak so the longer the pc is on the more memory it uses

one solution is to use regedit

and change the registry key value of the “Start” entry to 4 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu\
 
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so it means your problem is solved.
 
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huh????

its not my problem i was replying to the original posters question

 
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hey you are welcome that issue has came up on here a few times this week so was a good bet it was the killer network problem
 
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I have the sort of same problem, when I play games and Idle for long amounts of time my RAM usage goes up.. would this fix it
 
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