I just unplugged all entities from my desktop; these are listed below. * webcam and microphone * gaming headset * bd-rw disc reader * external SSD * scanner * monitor * mouse * keyboard I went in via SSH and observed the frequency is still high and the interrupt stuff still occurring. I re-ran the script, gathered new data, and put it all into a compressed tarball and will upload that. So, the issue doesn't appear to be with an external peripheral device. However, it may deal with, as previously mentioned, my EVGA Geforce RTX 2070 and/or my motherboard. I will attach the aforementioned tarball immediately after this comment.