My GT70 went crazy.. over 90% RAM?

Hey guys,
i dont know whats going on, but since the the last big update for Windows 8.1 my GT70 (0nd) is going to have a crazy RAM usage.. its over 90-94% after 2-3 hours. Mostly its google chrome, but even when i close chrome and theres no process in the task manager its still on 85-87% usage of RAM? Why is that? i have to reboot my laptop like 3-4 times per day.. and thats annoying.
Oh and btw. I cant even use "Core Temp" anymore on windows 8.1 .. because my whole laptop is freezing when i start this program.
Any help?
I installed all the drivers of course and all updates.
Thanks

Is Chrome the only software to do it? Update to the latest version or beta.
My Win8 did in the beginning this: on the desktop I had just GPU-Z open or MSI Afterburner set to logging. The memory used in the Task Manager did eventually creep up from about 30% to nearly 100% and then - poof. Playing some game with Afterburner on the background did stop after a while nagging about missing memory. After all kinds of software updates I haven't suffered about that behaviour anymore but can't be sure if it is totally fixed; now I'm on 8.1 with the latest update.

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