RAM upgrade

deadpresidents4 · 18 Mar 2014 at 17:27

RAM issues

Here is my spec

Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor
2 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB **NEW REVISION**
Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic
1TB HD
2 x 4GB Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G213C1K)
Thermalright True Spirit 140 BW Cooler
XFX ProSeries (XXX Edition) 850W

Usually if I am just browsing this is the ram usuage I get:

deadpresidents4 · 18 Mar 2014 at 17:31

The main memory hogs appear to be Google Chrome, Kaspersky Internet Security and svchost (when browsing)

David Bisset · 19 Mar 2014 at 09:58

For gaming you should already be fine with 8GB. Having said that, you shouldn't be seeing anything like that RAM use with just chrome open. You should be using around 2GB only. I'd guess Kaspersky is conflicting with something such as Windows built-in protection (Windows Defender contains Security Essentials in win 8 I believe) - running two is not advised.

Security Essentials used to be great but apparently is less awesome now so perhaps disable it and keep using Kaspersky?

rids57 · 19 Mar 2014 at 15:29

Definitely something up there - I have firefox, avira and a chunk of other stuff running and am still only using 2.8GB out of 12GB

Admiral Huddy · 19 Mar 2014 at 15:33

try booting in safe mode. Do you get the same probelm?

If everything is ok is safe mode you'll need to run HiJackThis in both mode comparing the differences. Google anything that's suspicious and disable the service if you can.

deadpresidents4 · 19 Mar 2014 at 16:28

David Bisset said:
For gaming you should already be fine with 8GB. Having said that, you shouldn't be seeing anything like that RAM use with just chrome open. You should be using around 2GB only. I'd guess Kaspersky is conflicting with something such as Windows built-in protection (Windows Defender contains Security Essentials in win 8 I believe) - running two is not advised.

Security Essentials used to be great but apparently is less awesome now so perhaps disable it and keep using Kaspersky?

I have rebooted and the non paged mem problem seems to have gone, but how do I go about disabling windows built in security

Take a look at my DxDiag file and you can see kaspersky seems to conflict with other things

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/8a4aae0b

deadpresidents4 · 24 Mar 2014 at 18:37

Take a look at this

deadpresidents4 · 29 Mar 2014 at 00:18

I have realised it is a BF 4 memory leak