Apple displays with a PC?

Can you use the 20' cinema display with pc? I have a PCI Express ATI Radeon x300 128mb...... would it work with that graphics card?
Thanks for the help

I would check with the manufacturer of your graphics card to see that it supports the cinema display's native resolution. I recently bought the 20" cinema display thinking it would work with my somewhat old ATI All-In-Wonder card, which did have the proper DVI port, but it didn't work out. The bios and windows startup screen would be displayed (streched at low res), but then would crap out after that.
I have since upgraded my card to the ATI Radeon 9550, which supports the 20" cinema display's native resolution of 1680x1050, and it works great, although now I just have to figure out how to adjust the color temperature of it...

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