Thunderbolt Technology Question

[Hirochezz]

I currently plan on buying a new iMac. I have a gaming pc, and windows 7 running on it. I want to have the iMac as my main monitor, but to connect it to my pc I will need thunderbolt ports on my motherboard. If I buy a motherboard to upgrade from my current one, will thunderbolt be compatible with pc? I was thinking of buying the P8Z77-V PRO, but have a few questions.

Will this even work?

Is windows compatible with thunderbolt?

Is there anything I should know?

 

[noidea_77]

I just learned, that this may work with thunderbolt and as it is a well specified standard, it should work with any thunderbolt mobo.

 

[Hirochezz]

A thunderboald mobo will not help, because the thunderbold port on the iMac is an output port. As far as i know it doesn't have an input port to use it as a monitor.

But If I connect them with a thunderbolt cable, cant you press a combination of keys on the mac side to allow display of the pc on the iMac? I believe its called Target Display Mode?

 

[noidea_77]

A thunderboald mobo will not help, because the thunderbold port on the iMac is an output port. As far as i know it doesn't have an input port to use it as a monitor.

But If I connect them with a thunderbolt cable, cant you press a combination of keys on the mac side to allow display of the pc on the iMac? I believe its called Target Display Mode?

Sorry, i just edited my first post after quick google session. I had simple never heard about that.

 

[Hirochezz]

A thunderboald mobo will not help, because the thunderbold port on the iMac is an output port. As far as i know it doesn't have an input port to use it as a monitor.

But If I connect them with a thunderbolt cable, cant you press a combination of keys on the mac side to allow display of the pc on the iMac? I believe its called Target Display Mode?

Sorry, i just edited my first post after quick google session. I had simple never heard about that.

Alright, so a thunderbolt mobo should do the trick. and for gaming purposes I should probably use virtumvp to direct graphics intensive software to my discrete gpu?