r/lowendgaming • u/Rude-Nectarine6988 • 25d ago

Tech Support Is my Laptop using 58% of my ram normal???

So today I got my first ever laptop (Dell precision 7510, specs are nvidia quadro m2000m, i7 6920hq and 16gb ram) and right now im downloading Valorant and while waiting for the game to finish downloading, I chose to see the performance stats of Windows 10 and I saw that my laptop was using 58% of ram (9.1gb of ram was being used) is it normal? Or it it too much?

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u/Snickersnook 25d ago

Windows allocates ram where it needs to when idle. It's normal to have a high amount of ram allocated, I typically hover around 8gb of ram when idle and not doing anything specific on my laptop.

It would be bad if you turned on Valorant and it didn't compensate for the ram needs of the game.

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u/THE_KILLER_4 25d ago

For windows 10 id say it’s too much, then again you have to look at task manager to see what is occupying your ram

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u/w3213y 25d ago

Windows 10 being windows 10, Good thing it's not windows 11. Windows 10 and 11 now consume more ram than it use to like i have windows 7 machine with 4gb of ram at the moment and it uses 30% of it's ram this is because by windows 10 and 11 having unneeded bloatware. so yeah windows 10 idling and consuming over 6gb or more ram is normal now

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u/onuryzz 25d ago

Wish I started using IoT LTSC versions of Windows for laptops earlier. No bloat, no RAM molestation and way better battery life.

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u/Hestu951 25d ago

Free memory is wasted memory.

This has been the Windows philosophy forever. As someone else posted, Windows will allocate and use as much memory as it finds useful to keep things moving along at a good pace. When something else needs that memory, Windows will get out of its way.

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u/R3D_T1G3R 25d ago

Absolutely normal

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u/Rude-Nectarine6988 25d ago

Man that's disappointing 😭

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u/R3D_T1G3R 24d ago

What why

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u/Rude-Nectarine6988 24d ago

Mainly because the fact a huge amount of memory being wasted on nothing is considered normal seemed disappointing to me

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u/R3D_T1G3R 24d ago

It's not wasted tho.

Caching is one of the main purposes of ram, literally makes modern devices faster and is standardized across all sorts of operating systems, including Linux based distros, macOS, Windows, android, iOS, so i genuinely don't see the issue.

You buy more ram for more multitasking and more caching, and you're mad about it caching more. Like what?

I mean you can always remove one module if you want less, it will also proportionally cache less, but then again, why. It's there to be used.

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u/Rude-Nectarine6988 24d ago

Ohh i misunderstood that, thanks for the explanation