Having trouble, first time building a PC, advice needed

[Kempffer]

I finally got all the parts I wanted and started building my PC last night. I've read a few guides to help me with the basics and expected the manuals with the parts themselves to fill in the rest. I was clearly wrong.

I've installed the Hard drive, Power supply, and optical drive so far into the case. I had no trouble installing my CPU into the motherboard, and my 2 sticks of RAM went good as well. I spaced the fact that I ordered a Cooler Master Hyper 212 plus CPU cooler and installed the standard heatsink by mistake, at that point I decided it was time to wait since I'm going to have to remove the thermal paste from the CPU. Also in my stupidity I broke off about half of the metal tabs on the io shield, but I realized in time that they're necessary so the big ones are all there, and a good amount of the smaller ones are as well so I'm not concerned about that.

What I am concerned about is the standoffs for my motherboard don't line up like they're suppose to, (Asus Z87 Plus Mobo, NZXT Source 220 case) only 6 of the 9 standoffs align properly, 3 of them are just slightly off of the board. At this point my main concern is installing the CPU cooler, I can't seem to find a good guide for it, and the manual doesn't help me much. I'm afraid I'll break the motherboard trying to get the standoff (backplate?) onto the bottom of it.

I'm also reading through the motherboard manual a little more to try and see if I need to use the extra parts that come with the motherboard or not.

Once I have the cooler on the CPU, and the motherboard installed I should have no trouble with the rest but I've stumped myself at this point.

My specs:
NZXT Source 220 case
i5-4670k CPU
Asus z87 plus Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU cooler
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM at 1600MHz
EVGA GTX 770 Superclocked GPU
Corsair CX 600 Watt PSU
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I didn't expect to have any trouble building it.

Thank you.

 

[smorizio]

the cpu cooler backplates for intel have three screw setting for the cpu chip that used. 2011/1333/1150 and 1150 are the same. some say 775/2011. what you do it place the four screw stubs in the 1150/1155 spots. then just slide it from the bottom of the mb so the screw threads go in to the other side of the mb so the cpu heat sink can lock into the back plate.
if the back plate is metal some kits have a foam spacer. to keep the back plate from shorting out the mb. if it plastic you just screw the heat sink to it. for the mb not lining up. the asus foam pads for the io shield are thick. you need to use some force or have a friend push the mb in and you put the screws in. also make sure the io shield is tapped in all the way.