21 inch Imac as monitor for PC

Hello all , so im primarily a PC user since the type of work i do non of my software works on Mac osx , I do run boot camp and have had great results running windows 8.
however got a major problem that one of my peices of hardware i use require a specific firewire port and is incompatible with the imac firewire even in bootcamp
I figure since my pc is like 4 times more powerfull then my mac but i dont have a nice monitor for it i would like to plug in to the mini display port from my pc tower
i got a AMD 6790 hd Video card with minidisplay can this work ?

Hello, depends, if it's a Mid 2001 iNac or later no...
Here's how it's supposed to work...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924
Mid 2011s & up need Thunderbolt!???
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3775

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