Ram Max at Idle

[Murchinator]

Hello,

I am getting this reoccurring issue where 7.5gb/8gb of my ram is being used when at Idle, no programs running like Steam or any P2P open either. And it is never right after start-up when I get the ram maxed out, it after a few processes have been loaded and used. I tried disabling auto archive like suggested to another user on a post on here but to no avail. I'm still getting my ram maxed out.

I recently upgraded my mother board and CPU and my system is as follows;
Intel i5 4670k
MSI Z87-G45
Kingston Hyper-X DDR3-1600 ram ( 2 x 4gb)
Evga GTX 660

I never had any issue with my old CPU and mobo, could this just be the ram being not compatible with the new CPU?

Any suggestions or insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

[WyomingKnott]

It's probably just the OS keeping recently-used stuff in memory. Most of it would be released in significantly less than a heartbeat if something needed free memory. It stays in memory in case you use the same thing again next.

 

[Murchinator]

It's probably just the OS keeping recently-used stuff in memory. Most of it would be released in significantly less than a heartbeat if something needed free memory. It stays in memory in case you use the same thing again next.

That's the problem, after being maxed out I'll go to launch, let's say Diablo 3, and it doesn't clear up memory.

 

[Arsh Techie]

It's surely malware download malwarebytes and clean your PC or install a fresh os!