How could this be... To a Microsoft Tech

I've built myself quite a system, Theoretically its nothing short of kick ass, however, it runs low on resources all the time. I built a gaming system, (top of the line for most puter parts) it boots to desktop in under 30 seconds. I have 9 things running in my task bar. I play 2 games Eve Online and World of Warcraft.

Most of the stuff running in taskbar include Nvidia tools, Sound, Curse client (wow addon manager), Microsoft essentials AV, kbrd profiler (logitech), mouse config (razor), my messenger proggie, 2 others that escape me.

Any suggestions will suffice - but the system is more than capable of running more and shouldn't by hardware specs run out of resources at all. "But, hey its windows is the easy answer" - Not the answer i'm looking for - Looking for empirical evidence to why this is happening and will it be fixed in any service pack?

My Setup:

OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD5
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge
CPU Cooler: CORSAIR H80
Mem: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB)
VDC: EVGA GTX570 2560MB (025-P3-1579-AR)
RAID: x2 ST32000641AS
SSD: Plextor M3 Series PX-128M3 2.5" 128GB SATA III
PWS: SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W
Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 650D

I find it really hard to believe that I can come close to low resources. According to my resource manager its only using up to 8gigs of physical memory even when my games are running and it stays nominal in that margin. Is it simply a windows glitch?

I've got the latest and greatest Video driver Nvidia 295.73 (we all know how well its working out for us )

Note: I run my SSD independently and it has Windows on it / I do not use it as a caching drive for my other mechanicals.
My mechanicals are in RAID 1+0

default / SSD

When you say "runs low on resources" can you please explain exactly what you meant?

Is that from an error message from windows or something in the logs? If so what exactly does the message say (exact wording).



The word "Resources" has a very special meaning internally to windows and has nothing to do with CPU ram or anything normally user visible, but it IS used in some error messages and can be confusing. So I need t clear up the use of that word first :)

+1

Yes, I would think that system would be fine. However, I think we need to start getting into specifics about what is actually happening, and when (what you're doing at that time that the "what" is occurring). Any little bit of info you can provide us with, whether it ends up being useful or not, would be quite helpful.

You may want to switch to the non-Aero theme while gaming.
Some games consume huge resources and memory.
The performance can be impacted while Aero is running.