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Couldnt' agree more. There a fair amount of servers that have great followings with Admins/Mods that keep things fun and enjoyable.
The only difficult part is finding these.
Nowadays, cdroms/burners are fast enough where it doesn't affect performance other then copying or installing things from them.
IMHO cd drives should be the last thing you're concerned about regarding gaming performance.
Happened last night playing Halflife 2........
Was in Ravenholm and came across the huge blade with a motor attached to it that you can start manually. Walked right up to it thinking "that looks like a HUGE mower blade, wonder if I can spin it...."
Of course the Steam servers are getting hammered. Theres a couple of million people all trying to do the same thing as you as at the same time. Valve even opened up more bandwidth specifically for this issue.
Now if you did what I did I let my computer run steam over night and when I woke up...
Do you have steam installed?
If you have been keeping up on the multiple preloading stages you should be able to play HL2 within like 30mins or so of ordering considering you have a broadband connection.
If you have not been keeping up on the preloading stages, you're in for like a 1.5 gig...