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First off, I'll supply specs to assure I don't confuse anyone!
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Vischera (Stock, Use a Cooler Master, Not O/C'd)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-78LMT-USB3 (Socket M2)
GPU: 4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 380 Series (XFX Pine Group)
HDD: 931GB Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 ATA Device (SATA)
RAM: DDR3 1333 running at 669MHz (x2) 4GB Cards
OS: Windows 10 64 Bit

Okay, here is my issue:

I have tried time and time again but windows is telling me that I have 8 GB RAM but only 4 GB usable. I have tried everything, reseating the RAM, BIOS, and advanced options in windows.
I'm brutally frustrated and confused, and without the other stick being used games can be unplayable.
Always 100% Memory usage with 4GB being only usable.
Hoping someone can assist, I'd really appreciate this.
Nick
 
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Ah - ok - that presents a whole different slew of other potential issues as to why it's doing this. In general there are a few things which you can do to try and free up RAM which is being...
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Windows 32bit version maybe? That limits you to a maximum of 4GB total.

edit. Sorry, that was a lot of the very same answers very quickly. Are you talking now about '4GB usable' as in that's your TOTAL memory as reported by the system? Or is that '4GB AVAILABLE' as in Windows is using and locking up about 4GB on it's own, leaving 4GB left.

I tend to find under W10 that it utilizes about half the available ram (that's on my 4GB laptop though.)
 
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Just updated thread. It is a 64 bit OS :D
 
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Yes, It appears that windows is locking up approx 4GB RAM, which is FAR too much.
 
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Ah - ok - that presents a whole different slew of other potential issues as to why it's doing this. In general there are a few things which you can do to try and free up RAM which is being locked for one reason or another.

1) as mentioned, unless you're using the IGP, disable it. If you are using it, take it off the 'auto' setting for RAM allocation to the IGP, and set it to something else instead - lower preferably - then check and see how you're doing.
2) next, you need to know what processes and programs are running, and figure out what you don't need, and disable/uninstall them. That can be tricky. I have a minimal Win7 system running, and it has a total of 38 running processes. It has exactly zero extra stuff running, and it only holds about 900MB-1GB in use (out of 4GB) on average (and that includes the IGP allocation).

Point is, you'll have to go through, and remove whatever cruft you have floating around in your installed programs and services and take out what you don't need.

Probably the best way to do that is:

1) hit the windows start button,
2) in the search type 'msconfig' then hit enter.
3) go to the 'startup' tab - disable any programs you don't need running.
4) go to the 'services' tab - disable services which might have installed (updater service for Java, adobe, google, etc).
5) hit apply, ok, then reboot.

See what your memory usage is like.
 
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