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Ollie Hunt

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When i download games my cpu and ram have an average of 40% of usage on task manager. is this normal?

i have hyperX 8gb 2133mhz
and a i5 6500
 
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geofelt
Your cpu usage looks normal and typical.

Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.

On ram, windows will keep stuff resident in ram in anticipation of possible reuse.
Overloaded ram is diagnosed by high levels of hard page fault rates.
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KyleADunn

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It doesn't sound unreasonable. Do you have an anti-virus running? Check the task manager's processes listing and see what's using the memory and CPU.
 
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geofelt

geofelt

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Your cpu usage looks normal and typical.

Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.

On ram, windows will keep stuff resident in ram in anticipation of possible reuse.
Overloaded ram is diagnosed by high levels of hard page fault rates.
 
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