Thanks for the replies!

Good point on the sound issue, will need to keep that in mind.

Sorry no other info that I can give as no hardware has been bought yet. I'm trying to figure all this out still. Even considering to just buy a few xeon E5-2450L and let them mine monero. I read one can get a decent price/power/performance with them. Thoughts?

Realistically I just need the cheapest option that requires the least attention as I won't be around there too much to look after it.

GPU rig is really tempting too though as there probably always will be something to mine with GPUs but didn't know they can just stop mining like that.