Weird , never seen a tri slot before . <| sep |> I believe it ' s just for the network management features like application prioritization or utilizing the doubleshot pro thing where you can run wifi and wired at same time for different apps , etc . The drawback with all that is it can pass the load of doing those functions to your laptops CPU . 99 % of people probably don ' t even use those features , and don ' t need them . <| sep |> hey , me too , I was thinking that if I get this mini version I can slowly move my setup into a mini atx or something . I know I open lots of tabs and leave lots of things running in the background and am also interested in using multiple monitors to watch videos and such but wasn ' t sure if this gpu would be overkill for my setup since I don ' t play graphic intense games that often anymore .