Focus on Monero, Aeon, Intense mining and use the following link https://minecryptonight.net/ to compare which is most profitable mining coin at present. That should save all your effort and avoid the noise.

Is there any specific requirement for the machine hosting the pool? Does it has to be a server or a normal desktop would do?

I want to setup a pool for some of the CPU mine-able coins. Let me know.

Does setting up a pool gives any advantage than mining the actual coin?

Hi,
   Is there any mining suggestions with Dual Intel xeon E5-2620. I have 4 of such servers and wanted to mine using them. The details for Intel xeon would be as follows

Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 (2.1 GHz/6-core/15MB/7.2GT/s QPI/80 W, DDR3-1600, HT, Turbo2- 3/3/3/3/4/5).

There are some performance based ones such as Intel xeon E5-2697 or E5-2637 as well. I am still not into GPU mining yet.

I was considering Monero or aeon mining using these servers. Any other suggestions are welcome to get some decent holding into your profile.