Windows 8 booted up high memory used

Just got this Samsung series 9 with Windows 8, 8 GB memory and 256 GB SSD drive. When the system boots up, go into Task Manager. The initial memory is at 13% used, after about 30 seconds. It surged all the way to 75% used while I am watching. I have tried
to look what is running but can't figure out what were using all the memory.
I was trying to run many programs to see how high it can go but don't have programs to test it, the most I could try (opening many browsers) the memory went up to 92%. Not sure it would crash if I have more programs running.
Here is the screenshot. (screenshot is not allowed to post until verified) How do I get verified?
Is windows 8 designed to cache a lot of memory right after reboot? I saw other posting with memory used about 40% so it doesn't looks normal to me. I Googled but can't find a similar issue.
Thanks in advance.

Here is the output from poolmon, I copied the first three lines. The ECMC is the one used 4.5GB memory.
Memory: 8001052K Avail: 1947072K PageFlts: 30958 InRam Krnl:23168K P:154300K
Commit:7360812K Limit:12719648K Peak:7598788K Pool N:4906580K P:159036K
System pool information
Tag Type
Allocs Frees Diff Bytes Per Alloc
ECMC Nonp 586 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 586 4920524800 (
0) 8396800
CM31 Paged 15348 ( 0) 1070 ( 0) 14278 62197760 ( 0) 4356
wcdl Nonp 34 ( 0) 0 ( 0) 34 32078320 (
0) 943480
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C:\Windows\System32\Drivers>findstr /s ECMC *.sys
intmsd.sys: ☼äÀ ║ Ç 3╔A©ECMC §W9 Hï°H;├u
I can't find any info about intmsd.sys yet.

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