Extreme Minimalistic Upgrade

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My system ATM consists of
Mobo- gigabyte EP45-UD3 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2920#ov
Cpu - E8500 intel http://ark.intel.com/products/33911/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E8500-(6M-Cache-3_16-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB)
PSU - coolermaster 650w http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171014
Case - CM centurion 5 http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=21
GFX - ATI Radeon 4870
http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/AMD_Series/EAH48702DI1GD5/ or http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/AMD_Series/EAH4870HTDI1GD5/
RAM - 4gb of DDR2 ram brand is Team group and its an xtreme series i dunno sorry

so i want to be able to play BF3 without a upgrade my budget is $200 doesnt matter where you give me links from Newegg is fine. I think i will need more ram because i will be upgrading to win7 because BF3 requires it to be win7 :( ddr2 ram seems more expensive than ddr3 atm though so advice would be appreciated greatly
 

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could you suggest a cpu and mobo then,
also why do you think they would be better than a new gpu