Gigantic hardware reserved RAM

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Components:

Intel i5 7600K 3.8GHz

Gigabyte GTX1060 G1 Gaming 3GB

2x DDR4 4GB 2133MHz HyperX Fury KIN RAM

ASUS B250 pro4 motherboard

Samsung Evo 250GB SSD

Seagate Desktop Barracuda 1TB HDD

Corsair CX550 550W PSU

My question:
It task manager it says that I have 5.8GB / 8GB of RAM reserved for hardware. The thing is I noticed this number is usually in MB's and I am having issues running video games, as I get either critical errors and the game stops responding or for example after playing World of Warcraft for about 5minutes I get an error: "Not enough memory" and it just crashes.
Things I have tried:
-run Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool (no reports of error)
-confirming "Maximum memory" is unchecked in System Configuration (boot-->advanced options)
-trying to find and enable Memory Remapping in BIOS (can't find it)

Unsure what else to do, read about some things with BIOS but I am unsure what to do precisely.
 
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this is what I mean... effectively I only have 2.2GB of RAM available for use due to this issue where it seems that almost 6GB is reserved for hardware...
 


5.8 out of 8 is a very strange number. At risk of underscoring the obvious, something is very wrong.

If you haven't done so already, take the DIMMs out, clean the contacts, clean the socket, and reinstall them.
 
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