High ram usage

[Lainghodson90]

Hello, I'm looking for some advice in regards to my hp spectre x360. Whats the expected ram usage when idle?

I'm having issues with it slowing down dramaticaly whilst using photoshop and illustrator.

It seems to be eating up my ram while just sat idle (generally always 30% plus). maybe i'm being stupid and that's the expected ram usage but comparing it to my near 8 year old desktop which idles around 15%, something doesn't seem right? more so that my spectre is a 9th gen i7 with 16gb ddr4 ram, whilst my tower has a 4th gen i7 with 16gb ddr3... surely i should be seeing better performance with my laptop? or at least similar?

i have re formatted recently hoping that it may of resolved the issue, but it didn't help.

Also since i formatted it, it no longer had the intel optane software on it, is that something that's worth reinstalling? does it actually make a difference to performance? as i only ever noticed that causing high cpu usage?

Thanks, Laing

[banhien]

@Lainghodson90 

Firstly, same price, same specs. Desktops will normally run better than notebooks. You can sort Memory column to see which program/service is the culprit.

Regards.