Quote Originally Posted by MuffinFlavored View Post

Cut that RAM usage in half!

I am trying to "move in" and make Windows Server 2008 my regular operating system.

I really messed up with the AHCI. I didn't set the SATA ports to act as AHCI.

Now, I have the Intel Chipset drivers installed (8.something.something.11) from the Gigabyte website (The Intel site had a lower version, of their own drivers?).

I may configure a nice Debian install (Linux) to compare RAM usage.
I know just sitting in the UI, Debian only uses 67mb of RAM.

Place how RAM much Windows Server 2008 uses just sitting at the UI with all the un-needed services turned off and no background processes other than the system here.
the reason its cut in half is that he has 2x as much ram , and afaik , it uses about 1/4 of the ram you have, 23% of yours and 23% of his.