The system was significantly slower than usual even when logging in or starting applications. After a while of wondering what was going on, I looked at conky and noticed that it was stuck at 800mhz, which would not change.
Output of inxi MCxxa --no-host under 5.7 (if output from 5.8 is needed please let me know)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: MAXIMUS VI EXTREME v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: American Megatrends
v: 1603 date: 08/15/2014
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4770K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 3C (60)
stepping: 3 microcode: 28 L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 56024
Speed: 2562 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 801 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected