Yosemite graphics and sound issues

this is my computer:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
Processor 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
i have been dealing with a very inconsistent problem since i've downloaded yosemite.
I'll start with the one consistency.
my computer no longer chimes at start up.  Thought it was a hardware problem.  I have run an AHT to no avail.  no problems detected.  although it may be an issue with the lack of RAM seeing as 'the internet' recommends at least 8GB for Yosemite. 
itunes takes approx. 10 minutes to open.  (also may be a RAM problem to this is regardless of whether anything else is running)
as does iphoto
Now the inconsistent stuff:
the computer crashes when dealing with any time of image files may it be picture or video. 
most of the time the computer will have some trouble playing video files and at times the whole computer will crash very spontaneously.  I have updated the flashplayer as well as my media player of choice VLC.  I do have stints when VLC will work just fine for several films but then will randomly crash.   When the computer crashes it will go into a start up loop of the gray apple screen to a blank gray screen which will then crash and restart again and again. 
I can't, for some reason, never get the recovery mode to work. Command R takes an eternity and then goes to gray screen.  Command D shows no problems. 
I have reset the PRAM and SMC which at times works and at times doesn't in my quest to get past the gray blank screen. 
after the computer has started up in my juggling act there is a graphics problem note. 
youtube on safari is very glitchy.  the glitchiness sort of began with Chrome so deleted it and started to use Safari sometimes no sound.  sometimes the video lags.  i have to move the scroll around a bit for it to work.  once it gets the hang of it its fine though...
when the computer comes out of sleep it may take 30 seconds when i haven't used it for a while which i understand is a hardware sleep thing.  i have heard stories of the black screen and functioning mouce and this happens here quite a bit.  from 5 to 30 second of time.  the main interesting point is that it at times starts up ok and at times will give me a very glitched out login screen, yet the login panel itself is fine. 
i have been thinking about downgrading to maverick again or even lion for the sake of installing a new operating system and to deal with the RAM but i think there is a collection of minor problems and i don't really know what i'm doing completely.  I will buy more RAM if this issues is salvageable.  all in all i'm one those OMG my computer ***** now that i've downloaded yosemite people. 
can someone please point me in a self suffiecent direction? are there any diagnostics i'm not looking into?   is my computer just too old for Yosemite? am I doomed to pay some mac wiz a ton of money? can all this just be a clunky OS and too little RAM?
i hope this helps other people and thanks for anything you have to add.  

Also when I do a command R reboot, the computer freezes on the gray screen with the fan running vigorously. I have to shut it down by hand to do anything.

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