My gaming PC that I built in January 2006 that IIRC I used to simultaneously run Battlefield 2, Trillian, Xfire, Thunderbird, and Winamp with a 1680x1050 monitor had 1 GB of total system RAM.

Fun fact, one of the XFire cofounders won Carmack's Ferrari at a Quake Tourney:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Fong#/media/File:John_C...

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