Hi. New GE70 2PE user here. I just recently had this to change over my 3-year old Sager NP8130, 1st reason for the Qualcomm Atheros = Bigfoot Killer hardware-based packet prioritization, 2nd reason due to Haswell arch over Sandy Bridge.

I seem to see 2 issues with my notebook so far:

1. RAM usage super high? 3 displays and then open steam/origin/chrome already eat 60ish% RAM. Previously it was even worse when I set Optimus to automatically choose between nV or iGFX, but even after I set everything to run via nV the RAM is still high. Any tips?

2. Laptop unable to wake after a long display turned off. I know that the laptop doesn't sleep coz my Logitech G13 clock still moves, I set my power option to only turn off display after 5 minutes of inactivity, but it just stuck when I tried to send keyboard/interrupt to turn the display back on.

For the first one, I suspect it might the pre-installed apps running on background, like Dragon Army Center, Killer Gaming, the steelseries stuffs.

For the second one, I actually disabled all the other settings already in Advanced Power Management, just to make sure that I only turn off the display. But well probably I missed some of them while customizing the power profile.

already did that, the top one was network restriced localhost (svchost stuff) which took out about 10% of mem (I use percentage rather than real value so that I know what's the real culprit). Currently it has not happened yet, but I'll get a snapshot once it happens again.

and for someone who asked about the total RAM, yeah, 8GB.