Install an adblocker. I'm not even kidding; it's been my secret to keeping older hardware with less (and slower) memory usable since the late '00s, and it's served me well.

That and, if you're into gaming, thank your lucky stars that there are all sorts of games from 15 years ago that are every bit as much fun now as they were then.

> How are you getting ready?

Finding out how to make the best use of the large amount of DDR3 RAM I have.

Those Chinese C612-based boards for the E5-2696v3, et al. (which support DDR3 and DDR4) seem OK with the custom BIOSen out there.

Installing linux on old hw is helpful. I got lucky and hoarded a few hundred GB of RAM before prices went up.

build the biggest beowulf cluster you can!