I used to play a 3D MMO (Lineage 2) with hundreds of people on screen with spell effects, sounds etc on a computer with 512 MB of RAM. I was also running a mIR

I used to play a 3D MMO (Lineage 2) with hundreds of people on screen with spell effects, sounds etc on a computer with 512 MB of RAM. I was also running a mIRC client in rooms with hundreds to thousands of people at once. And I was able to do both at the same time. Now that computer can't even run 1v1 chat.