So get this!!!.... Idling with no other apps or services running, Win7 uses around 40% of my memory; but when I have outlook, firefox, and windows media player running actively, it only is at 22% consumption. WTF mate!!?
Hey... it's better than mine, I have 6gigs of RAM installed in x64 as well, but only 4 of mine are "usable". Haven't been able to figure out why.My Windows 7 build 7068, says it is only using 4.99GB out of my total 6GB of RAM. Is there any way to fix this??
Specs:
Intel core i7 920
Corsair dominator 3X2GB
ASUS P6T Deluxe
When I get home I will take a stick out and see how that affects the available/usable ratio. Next month I'll buy some more RAM, add it, and see if that does anything as well.
If you're able to take a stick out and see what it says, I'd be curious to know that as well.
I would inquire as to what slots you're using on what MoBo, but if it worked on a previous build then that's just bizarre.
Yea, totally forgot about that (I have triple channel as well actually)
On a semi-related note, does that mean you can only add RAM in multiples of 3?!
In other words, I wouldn't be allowed to add just one, I'd have to add another 3?
Also, I just upgraded to build 7077, and mem usage still idles at 40% and 4gigs usable out of 6 installed.
I went into the start menu to activate all 4 processors of my Phenom 9600 under advanced boot options. While there I chose to enter my ram 4 gigs of ram on the memory aspect and after I rebooted once, went back to msconfig and changed to 5 second wait for boot didn't reboot at that time. I then went into services.msc and disabled remote registry and when I rebooted the machine lagged way down taking forever to load startups and the aero interface failed to load backgrounds and the entire machine slowled to mollases.
Once I could finally get into a start menu I entered msconfig and found to my surprise that the profile in advanced now stated 256 instead. I unchecked the memory option and rebooted and it's running fine.
Is the L2 and L3 cache already activated to full capacity or do you need to do that reg tweak from vista to activate all 2m of quadcore l2? If so does someone here have the specifics?
Thanks,
GeneralOya
So get this!!!.... Idling with no other apps or services running, Win7 uses around 40% of my memory; but when I have outlook, firefox, and windows media player running actively, it only is at 22% consumption. WTF mate!!?
I finally did it, i got windows 7 to recognize my whole 6GB of ram, I cant belive it!
and also my memory usage went down to 20-24% idle (wonder if that really just means it only using 24% of my 6Gb now, or when it preivous said 4.99Gb it was still calculating the other 1.01 on the 40% usage?)
I ended up messing with a BUNCH on files in my system, but it seems like it was worked and it isnt unstable or anything like that....
if you still need help/wonder what i did just ask.
and off topic but still on the system ratings, mine says this:
Processor: 7.4
memory: 7.8
graphics: 5.9 >whats the diffrence between graphics and gaming graphics? I have a ATI 4850 1GB why this low?
gaming graphics: 6.6 >
primary had disk: 5.9