The ' premium ' devices also have deficiencies . <| sep |> It is most certainly not normal for having only 6 GB RAM in the first place . Most OSes use more RAM to speed things up if more RAM is available unused RAM is , after all , useless RAM . This is why even when I ' m not doing much on my 32 GB RAM computer , it uses 5 GB 8 GB of RAM , and yet Windows 10 64 bit can actually still run fine on systems with 2 GB of RAM the OS adapts its base usage outside of processes to how much RAM the system has available , and tries to leave enough for additional processes . As a specific example , I have a computer running Windows 10 64 bit that has 3 . 4 GB available RAM , and even with Steam , and a few Chrome tabs open , it only uses 1 . 6 GB 3 . 4 GB 47 % with the same amount of stuff running on my 32 GB computer , it ' s using about 5 . 5 GB RAM . The recommendation for an SSD is always a good one as a general rule , but I don ' t think it ' s his problem here . As is in the link from my post , I think he should try running RAMMap and seeing how much RAM is being consumed by the nonpaged pool , and proceed from there .