Yep that was as well! I think I had 256mb in 2005 I know this much then I think it was just before getting the new graphics card that I got 512mb of ram and that was just phenomenal haha back in the days where adding another stick of ram made your PC 6x faster, or at least that's how it felt anyway!
Ahhh... seeing as we are on the subject I just had a memory of when I was able to play The sims 1 for the first time ever... It was 2003 and someone I knew (I was only 11) let me have their old 32mb stick of ram. Back home I had only 32mb currently so to double it was amazing. Anyway I printed off a diagram of a motherboard and how to install a RAM chip, got my dads permission and supervision (weird I know but nobody had ever opened the PC before) and away I went at doing my first ever upgrade! And that was it I was flying from there and finally got to play The Sims myself! I've hooked on PC's and gaming ever since! :'D