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yes this is normal, and it's well explained by this technet quote

"The pagefile is used even when free RAM is available by design.
Processes with less activity are paged away to make room for other memory claims. Consider Windows always first using all RAM. In the case RAM is full and a new application is started, Windows should identify which processes can be paged away, read them from ram, write them to disk, read the new program from disk and load it in the freed RAM. This consumes a lot of time as disk read/write is a very slow operation, and all while the user is waiting for his program to start.
So to work around this performance hit, Windows will monitor memory usage and page away all that is not often used to keep RAM free for...
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Mark RM

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yes this is normal, and it's well explained by this technet quote

"The pagefile is used even when free RAM is available by design.
Processes with less activity are paged away to make room for other memory claims. Consider Windows always first using all RAM. In the case RAM is full and a new application is started, Windows should identify which processes can be paged away, read them from ram, write them to disk, read the new program from disk and load it in the freed RAM. This consumes a lot of time as disk read/write is a very slow operation, and all while the user is waiting for his program to start.
So to work around this performance hit, Windows will monitor memory usage and page away all that is not often used to keep RAM free for new processes that might start."
 
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What MSI afterburner is showing, is not actually page file usage.
It is value of commited memory from Task Manager. You can start worrying, when this value grows past amount of physical ram in your system.

If you want to get pagefile usage, you have to use Performance monitor (perfmon.msc) and add Paging file counters.

Your screenshots all look normal btw.
 
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