How to make your PC use all RAM and all processor cores with Windows 10 options

Our PC's is a compendium between software and hardware seeking the perfect balance and within the latter there are components that stand out above all. There's the hard drive, the GPU, the processor, the RAM... And in this tutorial we're going to see how you can push RAM and cores to the limit

Let's see how using the options offered by the operating system, we can make our PC use all the memory Available RAM and that all the cores that make up the processor are active at the same time.A not very complicated process that nevertheless requires certain precautions.

Preliminary considerations

These two components are configured in such a way that they are used on PC, tablet, mobile or whatever device, and they are activated depending on the needs. They do it to to save energy but also to increase the durability of the components If we think about it, in a multi-core SoC it is not interesting to have all the cores activated just to navigate through the web, to cite just one example.

In a desktop computer this is not a problem, beyond the consumption it may have of energy, but in a laptop powered by a battery it is essential that the power consumption ratio be the most balanced, therefore that you only have to pull out all the potential in specific cases.

"And having said that, the way for Windows 10 to have the full potential of our PC active by default is to follow these steps. And the first is to know the specifications of our PC, something that we can see in the Configuration path, and then in System>"

We must also take into account that if we use 32-bit Windows 10, it will not be able to use more than 4 GB of RAM So it doesn't matter if we have 6, 8, or 16 GB of RAM... if we want to make better use of RAM, we have to jump to a 64-bit system.

Enable all cores and RAM

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With all the information collected, now it is a question of using the System Configuration tool and to access it we can use the Search Box or the key command Windows + R. "

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Once inside we write msconfig to open a new window that is System Configurationin which we will see different tabs."

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We are going to look at the one called Startup and click on it and then, once inside, click on the button Advanced Options. Here we can access the configuration of the RAM and the active cores."

To activate all the RAM we must take into account that if we have X GB of RAM, we must multiply that figure by 1,024, obtaining the total amount of RAM that we can usein the box provided for this purpose. If we do not enter any value, by default the system will be using the available RAM memory as it deems appropriate.

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For its part, to make all the cores activate we have to uncheck the Number of processors box if it is not If we want activate a certain number of cores we only have to mark the aforementioned box and choose the processors that we want to be active."

With all these steps, it only remains to accept to save the changes and for the PC to assume the changes made.