I know that feeling . I ' m not fat anymore , but I ' m nowhere near skinny . I don ' t wanna be an average size . <| sep |> If it works for video cards it should work for CPUs as well , right ? <| sep |> Will it work ? Yes . Will it be a good idea ? Depends . Right now your sticks are hopefully in dualchannel mode . Adding another stick would put you in an interesting position regarding that . Most likely you ' d lose dualchannel benefits no matter what you do , though you may get some interesting semidual mode benefits . There ' s also the matter of speed . Your current sticks are rated for 1833 10111030 what the hell kind of weird timings are those , but whatever , the others doesn ' t say . Maybe there ' s another label . Maybe it ' s just not rated for anything but default . In that case , your RAM would now default to whatever your mobo considers standard DDR 3 , i . e . they ' d get slower .