chris here with a mammoth monitor as you can see i could barely fit this in the studio on
the table here at least and get it in my shot it's called the innocent 40 c1r this is really
a gaming monitor because it's an ultra wide at 21 9 aspect ratio with a 3440 by 1440p resolution 144
refresh rate it has hdr 400 support one millisecond greater graze response time
and we do get type c with this so one single type c port that can connect up with display
but also power devices up to 90 watts with it it's got dual built-in speakers in this and it
does have amd freesync support and nvidia g-sync support it's got an anti-glare coating and it's a
completely flat display here so let's find out in this review why i think this is actually a
really decent monitor just like the 27 inch version that i reviewed from innocent
so inside the box we have a user manual displayport cable power cable
type c cable and some screws here now those screws there are for using it if you wanted to
vesa mount this on a bracket or a different stand and speaking of stands we do have that in the box
of course now it's all made out of metal there's a screw in the mounting point quality is good this
weighs a lot to ensure that that monitor is not going to tip over then the stand for it which
has plastic on the outside there is a gap here for cable management and it is metal as well so
good quality this stand here and the components they have used on the back there's four screws so
you can remove those four screws and store the extenders and then visa mount this on a stand
and arm or wall mount whatever you want to do now i'm going to put the supplied stand here in
so you simply just need to line it up and clip it into the top part first and then push it down it
will clip into place you hear a little click there and that's secured and i'll plug for the monitor
so this is a common plug very easy to source it is the same that tower pc power supply units use
and all of our inputs here so we have two hdmi 2.0 displayport 1.4 a now if you want to get the 144
hertz maximum out of this you do have to use the display port i found out and then a type c port
now this type c port it does output 60 watts and then an audio 3.5 millimeter out either side there
are these tiny little speakers i'll give you a sample of them later on but monitor speakers
they aren't really that good you'll probably be using your own external speakers anyway
and down below we do have our buttons here for the on-screen controls and the power button with the
stand you're able to drop the monitor right down that's the lowest position and you can
raise it right up really quite high and we do have a tilt so you're able to tilt it up quite a bit
and then down and then we have a left and right movement to it as well which is really good a
lot of stands don't actually offer that kind of flexibility when it comes to the movements the
angles and the tilt that you're able to do with it so this 40-inch screen here is an ips panel
it has an anti-glare coating to it and it's not curved 100 flat and the bezels top left and right
are excellent they're not that large at all it's just the bottom bezel which is slightly larger
but overall i think it has excellent bezels and looks great the screen's brightness measured with
my spyder x pro is 392 nits we do have an srgb coverage here gamut of 98 ntsc is 78 adobe rgb
is 83 and then p3 83 also so good brightness it does also support hdr 400 so i can confirm that
the type c port is working well it's actually up to 90 watts it's powering my laptop and i do get
display out and now i've moved over to a mini pc but this is no ordinary mini pc it's an intel nook
now this has the 12 900 64 gigabytes of ram and a rtx 3080 ti and using that display port cable
was the only cable that i could get 144 hertz out of i could not reach 144 hertz with hdmi for some
reason i'm seeing a very very tiny a little bit of ghosting just a little bit of a trailing image
behind that ufo but it is super minimal for this resolution and at 144 frames per second and
of course 144 hertz it's looking very good so minimal ghosting with this panel but yes there
is a tiny little bit now the screen because it's so large it's 40 inches and this well relatively
high resolution we can run two panels side by side as you can see here that i do have with chrome so
it is going to be excellent for productivity not just for gaming at 144 hertz and what about video
editing on a monitor like this well i absolutely love it because look at all this space we've got
the screen real estate this resolution well it's not 4k gives me ample room here for editing my
videos so i've got my timeline there with a lot of space and right there the preview window right
in the middle really large and just makes it so much easier and more productive i can just see
everything so good versus say a smaller 27 inch monitor like the one i reviewed also from innocent
and the on-screen display here for all the options we get with this monitor so i haven't messed about
with those ones right there but this is a very important setting adaptive sync if you do have
a g-sync compatible gpu or freesync compatible gpu which most people probably will especially
if you're gaming then you need to turn that on if you want to use g-sync or freesync so i've
got it on here i've got the response time set to ultra fast uh the refresh rate you can get it to
display that if you want i just turned it on for the purposes of my review here and we have just
a few other menus so professional that's just our color modes we've got standard which is the
default srgb and all those others you can go and test those out picture settings you can adjust
that of course to your own personal preference picture in picture mode the on-screen display
controls themselves the settings for it so the transparency timeout and other settings in here so
it's pretty straightforward the important one is to make sure you go and enable that adaptive sync
if you want to run freesync and g-sync so this monitor does have two built-in speakers they're
not amazing speakers at all as you'd expect from a monitor i highly recommend you get some external
decent speakers but here's a sample of them at 100 volume just to give you an idea of what to expect
so we really do have another winner here when it comes to this panel i'm impressed so
good color gamut coverage the brightness it only came out to be 400 nets or close to so
not the 500 they claimed but even at 400 i think for indoor use which
95 of the people going to be using this for unless you've got a bright window right next to you with
sun streaming into the screen it shouldn't actually be an issue anti-glare coating is
great and it is a flat panel now response time is excellent input lag and anything like that is
all good response is great so if you're gonna game on it it's gonna be fantastic for that
but be warned if you intend to play modern aaa titles at maximum settings at the native screen
resolution you are going to need a bit of a beast of a pc to be able to run through this
even with my rtx 3080 ti and a 12 900 i can only get around 100 frames per second with
medium settings here with far cry 6. so yeah be prepared to have to fork out to get a really
good gpu to run this resolution with those games but of course older titles like counter strike
even with lower spec cards of course then you'll be able to run happily 144 frames per second
matching that refresh rate you can of course lower the resolution down you've got various
different options so we have inbuilt speakers that um they're not wonderful they've got a little bit
of bass to them so they're better than nothing of course so imagine you're still waiting for
your external 2.1 setup then it will do until that arrives there so you've got the speakers so it's
good because a lot of monitors don't even have them type c port i really actually like that it's
there because i can plug in some of my laptops even mobile phones with their desktop modes
straight into it one cable everything's on screen there with the display out and it is charging my
device at the same time up to 90 watts however it does have a limitation i found out that it
will only do 60 hertz and the display port was the only port that i could get 144 hertz refresh rate
out of this monitor too as well so if you happen to have tech that doesn't have a display port or
most gpus in fact all gpus will have that on there for powerful ones anyway so i don't really think
that's a bit of an issue i think that's really a non-issue that was the only one i could get out
but overall a fantastic screen lots on offer here picture in picture mode hdr 402 with it
and of course that 144 hertz so thank you so much for watching my review here of innocence 40 c1r