RAM Leak Assistance?

[Friendshipguy]

As of recent, my RAM will just get eaten up by no process in particular. It's a memory leak for sure, I'm just having trouble rooting out the problem since I've checked most, if not all the big problems they might be I'll list my computer's builds and things I've done recently.

Processor: Intel i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz

Motherboard: Asus Z170 AR

RAM: 16 GBs in total, 2 sticks of 8 GB Patriot Viper DDR4 RAM

Graphics Card: Geforce GTX 970

HD: An old-ish Seagate 1tb HDD, from 2012? it's the one thing I'm not too sure on.

I'll leave my computer alone and all the RAM will be in use by seemingly no particular process. Right now it's running smooth, but I can see it coming back (I'm currently at 6 GBs of 16 just running Chrome and Steam, no active downloads.) This has been happening since about Thursday when I got home from classes; I just came back to a PC that had all of its RAM in use, it'll usually start low before ramping up in no time flat, or over the course of a few hours.



So far to try and remedy the problem is scan for malware with malwarebytes, run the memory diagnostic test which cropped up with nothing, removed all startup processes (I don't run any anyways, but I doublechecked to make sure), updated all the drivers for my motherboard that I could possibly think of.

The only thing I haven't done is mess with the registry like some have said.

 

[CountMike]

Is that MB with Intel "Killer" network adapter ? It's drivers are known for memory leaks.

 

[Vic 40]

Is that MB with Intel "Killer" network adapter ? It's drivers are known for memory leaks.

Checked specs and no it doesn't.Nothing wrong with updating drivers though.

Try something else than chrome,this is also a memory hog. Test with Opera or Firefox,see if you have the same problem.