Unless you bought this second hand you would know. That's not a gaming laptop; I have the same laptop. So it's unlikely. If you research this just even a little you will find that upgrading your laptop to an SSD is the #1 most effective way to improve performance. Again, it won't be the same as upgrading your cpu but will not cause overheating problems like that would and in fact will lower you overall temps if you upgrade to SSD.