You may have noticed the introduction of the new AMD FM1 platform and have thought "not my cup of tea", pointing at the relative low performance of the CPU-part involved, the fact that the boards do not support your AM3/AM3+ CPU and the entry-level to mid-range performance of the GPU, which happens to reside not on the board, but in the CPU itself, prompting AMD to name it APU.
You may also have pointed at the TPD of 100 Watt and complained about it being a 'hot' chip for all the wrong reasons.
I ask you to reconsider. Do you know of a Phenom II setup of about the performance level of a Phenom II X4 840 that uses a mere 100 Watt for both CPU and video card? A Phenom II X4 840 alone consumates 95 Watt, a discrete HD 6570 or HD 6670 60 to 66 Watt. The die-shrink of the Llano thus reduces the needed power considerably and combined with an extra HD 6570 or HD 6670 you can run in crossfire modus, giving a virtual "HD 6690" of about the level of performance of a HD 6790, but with a power consumption for both APU plus extra card of about 150 Watt, while a single 6790 is rated the same. The CPU part of Llano runs for free in comparison.
Good news, DC-wise, for DNETC and Collatz, that do not need double precision. 880 shaders sure will get you somewhere
Another advantage of the new platform is that it supports more RAM. At the local hardware store I can -at this moment- buy four different FM1 boards that all support up to 64 Gb of RAM. You need to be able to buy 16 Gb modules to get to 64 Gb though, so in practice this will mean that the boards now max out at 16 Gb. That memory needs to be lightning fast to keep up with the internal GPU though, preferably 1866 Mhz. At that same local hardware store this means either blackline or redline Mushkin memory of 2000 Mhz or 2133 Mhz, as that is the only memory above 1600 Mhz that is offered $$$$... Going a few miles south I can buy twice as much memory for roughly the same price though, at the needed 1866 Mhz.
There will be FM1 Semprons and Athlons (e.g. Athlon II X4 641X) too, but they will need an extra video card to be able to work on a FM1. They might be less costly/demanding memory-wise as well.
What I would like is a 6-core (seems FM1 will not support 6-core APUs) Llano at Phenom II X6 1100 level and with an internal GPU at Barts level (HD 6800) instead of Turks (HD 6600), but I guess that will have to wait for socket FM2.