How am I using 57% Memory when I have 8GB RAM?

[Rasecx]

How is it possible to be at 57% usage in RAM when I have 8GB of RAM and only about 1GB of RAM is being used according to Task Manager? (The rest of the processes are a total of about 20MB more)

 

[GrowTFM]

Windows reserves a lot of memory even if it says 57% when you start using memory windows will take out the reserved memory for user.

 

[john TJ]

At idle windows would use about 20-30% with 8gigs installed.
this seems normal with all those programs running

 

[Rasecx]

I see. Thank you guys. The age where 8GB of RAM was more than enough is coming to an end..

 

[john TJ]

I see. Thank you guys. The age where 8GB of RAM was more than enough is coming to an end..

yeah it definitely will, but not now

 

[KingReZo]

Im currently playing Space engineers which is using 3GB of ram, otherwise windows and a few chrome tabs are using up 5GB so that is fine. Soon you'll probably need 16GB of ram. One problem I had with only 8GB is that applications would randomly close due to insufficient ram so thats why I upgraded to 16gb