6860 CPU usage way too high...

Alright, when I first got my 6860 I reformatted it and the memory usage hovered around 23% or so when just idling on the desktop. Well lately, like right now, my memory usage is at like 40%. Now that seems a little high for having 4 gigs isn't it? Is there any way I can lower this?

 

Eliminate un-necessary startup programs and services. Run an msconfig and see what you have running at startup.

 

I wonder if its Vista's Superfetch. Superfetch monitors what programs you use and loads the ones you use often into memory (but doesn't launch them) ahead of time with the assumption that you will launch them, and it'll start those programs faster. Supposedly works pretty good. I wonder if that's the culprit?

My P6860FX is at 38-39% of memory after startup and will max out about 40%.

I'm not worried about it. It certainly isn't affecting performance. (Extra processes running at startup may affect performance but what I have running at startup isn't that much) I've never seen it go over 50% so its not like I'm running out of RAM. It may go over 50% in a game, but I can't see the readings during a game.

 

empty ram is wasted ram, make sure you dont have unknown processes running and let vista do its job. superfatch works differently than previous windows memory management.

 

Amen to that! Superfetch is probably the best feature of Vista. Sure it hits the hard drive pretty hard upon first boot, but after a couple of days of learning your computing habits, you wonder how you even dealt with XP.