Finding a New Use for an Old iMac G5

My first ever Mac was an iMac G5 (circa 2006) that gave up the ghost in the form of a logic/mother board that mysteriously died last summer.
I was told by the Apple Store Tech that the board needed to be replaced for a fee of $1100. So I had them pull the hard drive and bought a new iMac.
I would like to know if this old iMac G5 without a hard drive can be repurposed to be used as either a secondary display for my new iMac or as a replacement for the CRT display on my kid's PC?
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions!

Woody,
Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry I did not see it until today, not very many problems with my existing iMac Intel
Thanks again and I will go into my local authorized Apple repair centre and have them find out if it is the capacitor failure. If yes, then my daughters get Mac!!
Woo Hoo!!
Norm61

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