Some problems with my new comp

wonger357

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so i just bought this comp http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103158 from newegg, and pretty much everything seems to be going fine so far (although i havnt gotten around to doing much on it). with that being said , i put my geforce 8500 in it and the computer gets pretty loud. not only that, but when i go to play wow, the computer freezes, i dont know what its freezing, but it seems to happen randomly. it usually happened when i changed the video options, although a couple times it froze right when i opened the program or randomly no more than 5 minutes in. does anyone know why this is happening? my personal hypothesis is that it's because my power supply isnt good enough (i think its 300w) and when i open wow it causes the graphics card to crash. anyway, any help would be great, thanks.

Edit: also i think i read somewhere that someone said they were able to max out this integrated graphics card at 512mb, but idk how to do that (i dont know much about computers). can anyone explain to me how i can do this if it is even possible?
 
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Yeah with that card, 300W is gonna be right at the very lowest you will need for wattage. I don't know if that's the only problem though.
 
so i just bought this comp http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103158 from newegg, and pretty much everything seems to be going fine so far (although i havnt gotten around to doing much on it). with that being said , i put my geforce 8500 in it and the computer gets pretty loud. not only that, but when i go to play wow, the computer freezes, i dont know what its freezing, but it seems to happen randomly. it usually happened when i changed the video options, although a couple times it froze right when i opened the program or randomly no more than 5 minutes in. does anyone know why this is happening? my personal hypothesis is that it's because my power supply isnt good enough (i think its 300w) and when i open wow it causes the graphics card to crash. anyway, any help would be great, thanks.

Edit: also i think i read somewhere that someone said they were able to max out this integrated graphics card at 512mb, but idk how to do that (i dont know much about computers). can anyone explain to me how i can do this if it is even possible?

I wouldn't think it was your G-cards power, usually if you don't have enough power it just lags really badly. Sounds like a bad graphics card or something man. Try another one or run off the onboard. I saw it has a HD 3200 in it, that should play WOW just fine. See what you get with that.
 
Did you install the latest drivers for your graphics card when you installed it?

Did you install any drivers when you installed it?
 
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