Memory performance issues?

TheTommynov1000

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I am currently looking at the task manager, at it says I am currently consuming 4.7 GB of ram at idle. This is under the performance tap in windows 10. When I look at users to see what I am actually consuming, I am consuming less than 1 GB (945 MB). Why is there such a huge discrepancy between the two and how do I reduce it?

Currently running windows 10, with 16 GB of ram
GTX 1070 GPU
i7-3770k CPU
 

TheTommynov1000

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What would reserve that much memory? My GTX 1070 already has 4gb of vram. The only other hardware that would use memory is the cpu. From what I understand, not that much?